Editorial on historical notes

✍ Scribed by Borko, Harold

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 86 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198709)38:5<387::aid-asi9>3.0.co;2-l

✦ Synopsis

In your editorial in the May issue of JASIS, which arrived today, I note with pleasure that you will be featuring a series of historical perspective pieces during this year. It is certainly very important for every field in every profession to take a historical look at itself from time to time so that the people in the field can gain a better understanding of where they are and why.

Since I suspect that many JASIS readers do not ordinarily read the Journal ofLibrary History, I should like to invite their attention to