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New Editor Named for ALA's Acclaimed GUIDE TO REFERENCE BOOKS
Robert Kieft Named Editor of Next Edition of Gold Standard Source for Reference Citations
Robert Kieft has been named Editor of the next edition of the American Library Association's Guide to Reference Books. Named by Library Journal as one of the "50 Sources for the Millennium," the Guide has evolved from its debut in 1902 with only a few hundred entries to the comprehensive, all-encompassing reference it is today with nearly 16,000 entries of research/reference works. With the appointment of Kieft, the development of Guide to Reference Books, Twelfth Edition officially begins.Robert Kieft will serve as the general editor of the Guide, shepherding the project and its many contributors through the process of developing the twelfth edition. Among Kieft's responsibilities will be the recruitment of section editors for the Guide, creation of the criteria for citation inclusions and leadership of the editorial board through manuscript development and editing. He will also work closely with the production and editorial teams at ALA Editions, the imprint of the American Library Association and publisher of the Guide, to bring this new project to fruition.
Kieft's experience includes positions in the general reference department of Stanford University's Green Library from 1974-1981 and in Stanford's Meyer Library form 1981-1988 as acting chief librarian, humanities bibliographer and coordinator for collection development, head of circulation and head of technical operations. He has taught library research skills segments in English and drama courses at Stanford and has published extensively in journals such as Choice and Reference Services Review. Krieft received his bachelor's degree in English from Hope College, his doctorate in drama at Stanford, and his master's of library and information science at the University of California-Berkeley.