The library world continues to change rapidly. Amidst this turmoil, some of our concrete efforts have remained the same. We strive to protect patron privacy, a core belief that is codified in the ALA Code of Ethics. We assess our work regularly, tracking circulation statistics, number of students in a class, our shrinking budgets. We maintain databases and think of relationships to vendors, are wrangling big data, and think critically about the storage and retention of information. This issue of Alki is all about Keeping Count. This first issue of 2020 welcomes Johanna Jacobsen Kiciman as the new editor.
Most of the work for this issue of Alki was done in a pre-Covid environment. We are glad we were able to make a nod to the current pandemic in our special letter from the WLA president and the letter from the editor, realizing that the situation continues to envolve. Thank you for your compassion and understanding during these truly unprecedented times.
