More than three years ago, when we launched the project of a special issue of Library Trends on the theme "Joy of Information," we were unaware of the road ahead. In an unexpected and thoroughly unjoyful turn, the world entered a relentless COVID pandemic that brought hardship and loss to almost everyone. Then, the murder of George Floyd by police was a tipping point to mass outrage, a social rupture, and a reckoning with systemic racism among other forms of injustice in North America. At the same time, there was an unprecedented economic collapse, the most controversial presidential election in American history, and a catastrophic environmental crisis became ever more unavoidable and ominous. As co-editors, we felt trepidation that the concept of "joy" was far from the minds of the general public, the field of Library and Information Science (LIS), and our authors—who had been invited to write their manuscripts as this perfect storm reached its zenith. In truth, we doubted whether "Joy of Information" was an appropriate collection to deposit permanently in the literature of LIS at this time.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 70 (4). Spring 2022
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0008
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