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The journal Library Trends, now in its seventieth year, has since its inception in 1952 been produced by the School of Information Sciences, formerly the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The quarterly journal is currently published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This 71 (2) issue celebrates the contributions the journal has made to library and information science (LIS) internationally. While the journal uses the word “library” in its title, its rich history shows that it not only has covered LIS in breadth and depth, starting with its first issue on the theme of “Current Trends in College and University Libraries,” but also has pushed the boundaries of the field, with its 70 (1) issue on “Fashion in the Library / Fashion Librarianship” and its 70 (4) issue on “The Joy of Information.” The language of publication is English, with one issue, 67 (4), published in 2019 in both English and Spanish on the theme “Communities and Technologies: Realities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Librarians in Cuba.”
Library Trends has had thirteen editors-in-chief from 1953 to 2023, two-thirds (or nine) being men, all from the United States, except for one from England and another from South Africa. Each editor-in-chief or at least one of the coeditors-in-chief has been affiliated with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s School of Information Sciences.
- Clara M. Chu and Jaya Raju, Summer 2021–present
- Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Spring 2017–Spring 2021
- Alistair Black, Summer 2013–Winter 2017
- Alistair Black and Boyd Rayward, Summer 2009–Spring 2013
- Boyd Rayward and John Unsworth, Summer 2006–Spring 2009
- F. W. Lancaster, Winter 1986, Summer 1986–Spring 2006
- Leigh Estabrook, Spring 1986
- Charles H. Davies, Fall 1979–Fall 1985
- Rolland E. Stevens, Winter 1979–Summer 1979
- Herbert Goldhor, Summer 1962–Fall 1978
- Harold Lancour, Summer 1952–Fall 1952, Winter 1954–Spring 1962
- Ernst J. Reece, Winter 1953–Fall 1953