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Additional articles examine the social return on investment in libraries, discuss non-academic sources, and present an overview of the October Children and Teen Services Conference. Finally, get to know an academic library worker in the new regular column from BCALS.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank Kristina McGuirk, our outgoing editor, who has been essential to the running of <em>Perspectives.<\/em> Kristina has been an editor for 2 years, and was a board member for a year prior to her time as editor. Thank you for all of your hard work Kristina, and good luck with your new position as an archivist!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0For issues coming up in 2020, we hope to increase <\/em>Perspectives<em> content from our colleagues outside of the Lower Mainland of BC. 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