For this issue, we asked three librarians and one MLIS candidate to respond to the following question: “According to Statistics Canada, 19.1% of the Canadian population identify themselves as visible minorities, but in the CAPAL census, only 9.1% of respondents identify as members of visible minorities. What is holding librarianship back from being more inclusive of visible minorities?” Enjoy!

The year 2020 prompted libraries across and beyond Canada to be more flexible in the ways they offer reference and instruction services to their patrons, onboard new staff, and make their collections available. For Volume 16.1, we asked library and information science professionals across the country to submit articles to our Features section for our "Libraries and the Pandemic" themed issue. I was delighted as submissions rolled in from school librarians, data librarians working in academic libraries, members of a provincial library association, and virtual librarians, to name a few.

Introducing our newest section to Parntership, Features.