Editorial

It is with an equal measure of alacrity and trepidation that I assume the editorship of Slavic & East European Information Resources. I have very large shoes to fill. I salute Karen Rondestvedt for her tireless efforts in founding and so ably managing the journal for the past decade and a half. I will do my utmost to prove her worthy successor in the coming years. I am committed to maintaining the journal as the flagship publication in the English-speaking world for Slavic and East European librarians and information specialists. With the apparent cessation of the British publication Solanus, the continuation of SEEIR is all the more imperative as a forum for scholarly publication in our field. I invite all our Slavic librarian colleagues from across the globe to consider SEEIR a welcoming place for their work and ideas.

As Karen and I agreed to pass the editorial baton with Volume 17, Number 3, my inaugural issue as editor happens to be a special issue guest edited by Edward Kasinec. The issue contains six extensive articles concerning Russian art and visual resources at three of the world’s major research collections. My sincere thanks to Edward for the idea of this special issue and his help bringing it to fruition. Finally, permit me to close, as Karen always did, by encouraging the Slavic librarian community to submit your work to SEEIR. The journal can only survive with your peer-reviewed articles, column pieces, and reviews. Please see the journal’s website for submission options and issue deadlines, https://sites.google.com/site/seeirjournal/.

Daniel M. PennellEditor