Congratulations to the 2011 ALISE Best Conference Paper Award Winners! Articles developed from their papers will appear in Volume 52, no. 4, which will be published in October 2011. Faculty Responses to Library Service Innovations: A Case Study Susan E. Searing & Alison M. Greenlee What is the Value of LIS Education? A Qualitative Analysis of the Perspectives of Tennessee’s Rural Librarians Bharat Mehra, Kimberly Black, Vandana Singh, & Jenna Nolt Hands on from a Distance: The Community-Embedded Learning Model Contextualizes Online Student Coursework Linda R. Most Are We There Yet? Results of a Gap Analysis to Measure LIS Students’ Prior Knowledge and Actual Learning of Cultural Competence Concepts Kafi Kumasi & Renee Franklin Hill Kathy Burnett and Michelle Kazmer Editors, JELIS http://jelis.org [log in to unmask] Sung Jae Park Editorial Assistant, JELIS