[Asis-l] New Editor for Canadian LIS journal appointed

[Haidar Moukdad]

The Board of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) is
pleased to announce that the new editor of the Canadian Journal of
Information and Library Science (CJILS) is Dr. Heidi Julien of the
University of Alberta. Heidi will take up her new role as of Jan. 1st, 2008.
At this point, we would like to thank the outgoing editor, Dr. Lynne
McKechnie, for her five years of excellent editorial leadership and vision,
and at the same time, we would like to welcome Heidi to her new role.

Dr. Julien is an Associate Professor in the School of Library and
Information Studies at the University of Alberta. She teaches and does
research in the areas of human information behaviour and information
literacy. Her research has been funded consistently by the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2006 she was a Research Fellow
with the Canadian Centre for Research on Literacy at the University of
Alberta. Dr. Julien has been actively involved in CAIS/ACSI for over a
decade. She was program chair for the CAIS/ACSI annual conference in 2004,
and has served on the program committee for many years. She served on the
CAIS/ACSI Board as President in 2001. In addition, Dr. Julien has served on
the Board of the Association for Library and Information Science Education
(ALISE), and chaired SIG USE in the American Association for Information
Science and Technology. Dr. Julien is an active manuscript reviewer for many
journals, and has served on the CJILS Editorial Board since 2002. She also
edited the "Research News" column for CJILS for three years. Recently she
revived the ALISE newsletter as an important service to the ALISE
membership.

We are all very much looking forward to Heidi's editorial direction of the 
journal and her plans for its improvement and ongoing development over
the next several years.

Gloria Leckie
CAIS President

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                              Dr. Gloria J. Leckie,
                                 Associate Dean,
                  Faculty of Information and Media Studies,
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             University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. N6A 5B7
                          email leckie at uwo.ca
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