From the Editor

Abstract

Welcome to volume 60 of RUSQ: A Journal of Reference and User Experience, the scholarly journal of the Reference and User Services Association. The journal launched in November of 1960 and was published quarterly through volume 59:2 (2019), when it went on hiatus. In 2021, I worked with the RUSA Office staff and then RUSA President Courtney McDonald to publish a joint RUSQ 59:3–4 to round out that volume. The same year, the RUSA Board commissioned a taskforce to explore the role of scholarly publishing in the division, and it was decided, based on surveys and interviews with RUSA members, sections, and the scholarly publishing world, that there was a strong interest in having RUSA publish a peer-reviewed journal that focused on reference and user services, drawn broadly and offering content for librarians in all types of libraries. I am honored to have been asked to step back into the role of editor, which I held from 2012 to 2018.