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Item From the Editor's Desktop(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Comer, Alberta DavisWelcome to the winter 2006 issue. As you can tell by the name at the top of the page, Indiana Libraries has a new editor. I started my position this past August and am excited about the opportunity to bring you informative and interesting articles about libraries. Emily Okada from IU-Bloomington has graciously agreed to continue as assistant editor. Joining her are two new assistant editors, Marissa Priddis from Alexandrian Public Library and Julie Moline, school librarian in Franklin Township. I hope that having assistant editors from diverse libraries will allow us to offer articles from across the spectrum of librarianship.Item Cover(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Indiana LibrariesItem Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies and Indiana Libraries(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Archer, J. DouglasPeace, Justice, and Conflict Studies (hereafter referred to simply as peace studies) is one of the younger academic disciplines having its origins in the aftermath of World War II. And, believe it or not, it has many of its roots right here in Indiana. In 1948 Manchester College pioneered the first undergraduate peace studies program in America followed closely by Goshen and Earlham Colleges. These three programs now cooperate in the Lily-funded Plowshares project. (Details of this innovative initiative are available at its website http://www.plowsharesproject.org/) Indiana is such a magnet for peace studies as a discipline and profession that both the Peace and Justice Studies Association and the Historic Peace Church conferences were held in Goshen and Indianapolis respectively in 2005.Item In Step With Indiana Authors... This Month Featuring an Interview With Michael Koryta(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Comer, Alberta DavisIt is appropriate that the inaugural issue of this column features an author whose first book was published when he was 21. Michael Koryta's first novel, Tonight I Said Goodbye, published a mere two years ago, has won two prestigious awards, the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel award in 2003, before publication, and the Great Lakes Book Award for Mystery/Intrigue in September 2005. His book was also a finalist for the Edgar award for best first novel. His new book, Sorrow's Anthem, should be out in February and he is hard at work on a third novel.Item Indiana Libraries Submission Guidelines(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Indiana LibrariesItem Adult Literacy in Indiana(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Diesman, Julie; Moffett, Paul; Thomas, Amie; Twigg, MichaelMary McLeod Bethune, an African-American educator and adviser to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, has been quoted as having said, "The whole world opened to me when I learned to read." Unfortunately for many in Indiana, the "whole world" may be closed to them because of illiteracy. According to the Indiana Adult Literacy Coalition in 1989, 12% to 19% of Hoosiers over age 25 could not read or write at a functional level. As early as 1930, illiteracy was recognized as an issue within the state. An article in the Indinapolis Star dated September 25, 1930, headlined that over 50,000 Hoosiers were illiterate ("52,034 in state," 1939). It is natural to assume that at some point Indiana developed a robust statewide initiative to address the problem of illiteracy amongst its citizens. One might imagine a program that over time slowly but surely reduced the number of Indiana citizens who struggled under the mantle of illiteracy; however, myriad reasons and circumstances have conspired to prevent that from happening. Instead of a forceful statewide program, numerous segmented efforts by local or regional entities with modest support from various federal, state, or non-profit organizations are more apt to be found.Item News From Around the State(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Indiana State LibraryItem In Harmony: Sheet Music From Indiana: A Collaborative Digital Library Project(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Brancolini, Kristine; Kowalczyk, StacyIn October 2004, the Indiana University Digital Library Program received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to fund IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana (see the project website at http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/inharmony/). This is a three-year project to catalog and digitize sheet music from the collections of four partner institutions, Indiana University's Lilly Library, the Indiana State Museum, the Indiana Historical Society, and the Indiana State Library. The purpose of the project is to create an online sheet music collection that will demonstrate how museums and libraries with complementary materials can work cooperatively to create shared digital resources. By concentrating initially on the collections of American sheet music owned by each of the partners, the project will accomplish two highly adaptable goals: 1) it will demonstrate how approximately 10,000 digitized pieces of sheet music and their attendant metadata can be presented on a single website, offering federated searching of all collections or access to one or more selected collections; and 2) it will demonstrate how collaborative digital library development can provide online access to the important regional collections of museums, libraries, and historical societies. These collections may, in fact, be sheet music, or they may be important materials in other formats, such as photographs, maps, manuscripts, or artifacts.Item Forthcoming Issues of Indiana Libraries(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Indiana LibrariesItem To Russia... With Books, Archives, and Libraries(H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Leach-Murray, SusanIt is difficult to believe that just a few months ago I took an amazing trip to Russia. I visited both Moscow and St. Petersburg in July 2005. Spending five days in each city, the demanding schedule consisted of visits to libraries, museums, archives, and other famous tourist attractions. I hope that this brief trip description will give you some insight into the amazing features of Moscow and St. Petersburg, especially libraries and archives, and will inspire you to visit someday.