(via Dr. Jason Martin – Director, Cook Library & Learning Center at Florida State University, Panama City) This is a call for chapter proposals for a forthcoming book from Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited titled Creating Healthy Library Workplaces: Five Factors That Improve Employee Engagement and Satisfaction. The proposals can consist of original research, theory, or case…
Category: Scholarly Publishing
Call for Papers: Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education–Deadline Fri., April 19
(via Kristina Clement, Kennesaw State University) The call for papers for the Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (JOERHE) is now open. JOERHE welcomes original quantitative and qualitative research articles and innovative practice articles concerning Open Pedagogy, Open Data, and analyses of current topics in Open Educational Resources within the context of Higher…
Call for Submissions: “Information Rx” Column in Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries
(via Stephanie Shippey, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center) The Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries (JERML) is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to the evaluation of electronic resources in the health sciences. As an essential journal within the field, it aims to chronicle trends and innovations that serve professionals working in medical libraries. The current issue…
Call for Examples of Recent Scholarly Publications: Spring Issue of IACRL Newsletter–Deadline Fri., March 15
(via Kim Tipton, IACRL Communications Committee Chair) Are you an Illinois academic librarian who’s been recently published? We’d love to share it with the IACRL community! To have your publication mentioned in the Spring, 2024, issue of the IACRL Newsletter, please send the details (or a citation) of your publication to Kim Tipton, IACRL Communications…
Call for Submissions: “Biz of Digital” Column in Against the Grain
(via Michelle Flinchbaugh–University of Maryland, Baltimore County) “Biz of Digital” is a column in Against the Grain. It features discussions by working librarians on digital collections, digital repositories, digital scholarship, data services, and technology. Its audience is librarians in all types of libraries and vendors of products, services, and systems that support library digital services….
Call for Papers: Library Trends Issues on Generative AI and Libraries–Deadline Fri., March 1
(via Melissa Wong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s School of Information Sciences) The journal Library Trends is pleased to announce a call for papers for two back-to-back issues on generative AI and libraries, the first focusing on applications and practical impacts on libraries and the second focusing on ethical concerns. We welcome articles that address…
Call for Papers and Special Issue Editors: Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (Rolling Submissions)
(via Dr. Emily Knox–School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) The Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy announces a call for papers and special issue editors. The Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy (JIFP), a double-blind peer reviewed publication, is topically focused on practical, moral, ethical, philosophical, and theoretical issues of intellectual freedom and informational privacy within the…
Call for Proposals: ACRL Critical Digital Humanities Cookbook–Deadline Fri., Feb. 23
(via Fiona Kovacaj, Toronto Metropolitan University) We are accepting chapter (“recipe”) proposals on instructional activities for teaching about the Digital Humanities through a critical lens. Activities in this cookbook will encourage participants to think about theoretical and methodological issues in the field. Some theoretical paradigms/frameworks that can be applied to the recipes include critical media…
Call for Research Participants: Study on Embedded Librarianship in College and University Libraries–Deadline Fri., Feb. 2
(via Rebekah Hill, The Pennsylvania State University) I am conducting a research study on academic librarians who have roles as embedded librarians in a course at their college or university. Specifically, I am investigating how librarians describe their collaborative relationships with faculty in the context of semester-long courses with embedded librarians. If you are an…
January Issue of JMLA Includes Articles by Illinois Authors: PubMed Search Filters for Immigrant Populations and Book Review
(via Ramune Kubilius, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center at Northwestern University) The January, 2024, issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association has been posted in the MLANET site and is available for anyone to view (soon, it will also be in PubMed Central). Vol. 112 No. 1 (2024): January 2024 |…