JCDL

Welcome to Champaign-Urbana and the nineteenth meeting of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). This is the first JCDL to be held in Champaign-Urbana; but the cities have a rich history of gatherings for the study of information science. The tradition runs deep in the area notably the Allerton Park Institute conferences that were held for nearly thirty years (https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/420) by the University of Illinois Information School. Several active and stalwart members of the JCDL community may even recall the 1995 Allerton Institute on User Centered Digital Library Design and Evaluation. It is with this storied tradition of collective research purpose and common cause for information research in all its many interdisciplinary threads that we open the 2019 JCDL conference!