And yes, high up on my list will be this great job. Today, I am in my office at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada, looking at a small pile of submissions for the next issue of the journal, School Libraries Worldwide. I will read them quickly, thinking about who might be the most appropriate reviewers from the Editorial Board for each article, and then I will send the articles off in the mail to them. There are other articles out for review, and I wonder when I will hear back from the reviewers about those articles so I can let the authors know the status of their papers. The reviewers' thoughtful evaluations and suggestions are an essential part of the selection and editing of the papers that finally appear in School Libraries Worldwide.
Today is a gorgeous autumn day in Edmonton.
The leaves on the trees are yellow and orange and red, and the air is crisp and cool. Tomorrow will be Thanksgiving Day in Canada, a time for families to get together. There will be roast turkey and pumpkin pie at my family's celebration. After dinner we will all go for a walk, kicking our feet through the piles of fallen leaves along the sidewalk, and wondering how many days we will have before the snow falls to stay. I am wondering what I am doing here-working at the office on a Sunday again, and on a holiday weekend at that.