(via Ann Marshall, Purdue University Fort Wayne)
Do you work with transfer students at your institution, and would you like to share your experiences with fellow librarians? We are seeking a few final proposals for an edited book tentatively titled Transfer Student Success: Advancing Outcomes from the Library, to be published by ALA Editions in Fall 2020.
This edited volume will focus on academic library efforts to engage and support transfer students. The book will be practice-focused, with a firm grounding in the scholarship on transfer students, their use of libraries and information, and libraries’ engagement with them. The three sections of the book as currently planned are as follows:
1. Welcome to the university: orientation and outreach efforts for new transfer students
2. Engagement beyond the classroom: co-curricular efforts to engage with transfer students
3. Building on transfer capital: instruction, information literacy, and research efforts to support student success
We are particularly interested in seeing proposals that fall into the second or third sections outlined above.
The deadline to submit a proposal for consideration is Monday, January 6, 2020.
The submission should include your name, title, affiliation, title of the chapter, and an approximately 250-word proposed description of the work. Collaborative works are encouraged, as well. Chapters should be approximately 8 to 10 pages double-spaced, for a total of between 2,200 to 2,750 words.
Please submit your proposal using this form. We will notify you of the status of your submission by January 17, 2020. If accepted, first drafts would be due April 3, 2020.
If you have colleagues who work with transfer students and who may be interested in submitting a proposal, please feel free to share this email.