Abstract
Welcome to this double issue of Alexandria for April-August 2023!
Within the editorial board of Alexandria we have long fostered the ambition to broaden the scope of the journal when it comes to geographical representation. One aspect of this challenge is of course the composition of the board itself. Until now it has had a bias primarily on Europe and the Americas. This has become increasingly difficult to motivate and sustain in a globalized world.
Therefore, we have started the process to enlarge the board and recruit new board members, that could both contribute their professional knowledge to the journal and in the same time provide a better coverage of the whole international library and information field. We hope to be able to present this enlarged and updated editorial board in a short time.
Another obvious aspect is the content of the journal, that has basically suffered from the same shortcomings, namely a difficult-to-justify and outdated focus on mainly the global west. For this reason, I am very pleased to be able to present this new issue of Alexandria with contributions entirely from Africa and Asia:
Varsha Singh, Vishwadeep Kharwar and Avinash Kumar Sing from India contributes a paper on availability of E-resources in private agriculture collages in Uttar Pradesh. From Nigeria Akinola Samson Adesina and Aishatu Nya Zubairu reflects on contemporary library and artificial intelligence technology.
Juma Abeid Haji and Evans F. Wema of Zanzibar provides the readers of Alexandria with an assessment on the applicability of selection and acquisition procedures at Unguja Public Library, while Irhamni Ali and Sarah E. Ryan from Indonesia takes of the law and policy of library development with a legal text analysis of Indonesian library bills.
Finally Christian Mubofu of Tanzania offers a case study on experiences, purposes, satisfaction and missing library services as predictors of library information services provision. With this orientation of the content I as editor of Alexandria and the members of the journals editorial board hope set an example for the future. I would also like to thanks all the authors for their valuable contributions.