Research Articles
Predicting Sustainability for Programs in Library and Information Science: Factors Influencing Continuance and Discontinuance by Ken Haycock, p. 130

Perspectives of East Tennessee’s Rural Public Librarians about the Extent of Need for Professional Library Education: A Pilot Study by Bharat Mehra, Kimberly Black and Shu-Yueh Lee, p. 142

From Metadata Creation to Metadata Quality Control: Continuing Education Needs Among Cataloging and Metadata Professionals by Jung-Ran Park, Yuji Tosaka, Susan Maszaros and Caimei Lu, p. 158

Barriers and Challenges to Teaching Reference in Today’s Electronic Information Environment by Denise E. Agosto, Lily Rozaklis, Craig MacDonald and Eileen G. Abels, p. 177

Teaching Information Retrieval With Web-based Interactive Visualization by Peter Brusilovsky, Jae-wook Ahn and Edie Rasmussen, p. 187

Brief Communications & Research in Progress
The first Workshop on the Future of iSchool Doctoral Education: Issues, Challenges, and Aspirations by Paul T. Jaeger, Jennifer Golbeck, Allison Druin and Kenneth R. Fleischmann, p. 201

Editors’ Notes
The Breadth and Depth of LIS Education by Michelle M. Kazmer and Kathleen Burnett, p. 129