(via Julie Feerrar, Virginia Tech University)
We are excited to invite chapter proposals for Digital Literacy Leadership in Academic Libraries, an open-access, edited volume from Virginia Tech Publishing. View the full call for proposals, including potential chapter topics, here.
About the Book
Libraries have an important leadership role to play in helping learners navigate and participate in our digital society. Taking a leadership-as-practice approach, this edited volume explores digital literacy leadership around three major activities: framing or defining what digital literacy is and can be; building learning experiences into programs and initiatives; and pushing beyond disciplinary or institutional boundaries to forge partnerships, advocate for change, and make new connections. While many books have addressed how to teach digital literacy knowledge and skills, this volume steps back into the bigger picture of structuring programs, leading campus conversations, and identifying what it means for these initiatives to be library-led.
Defining Digital Literacy Leadership
This volume will frame library leadership for digital literacy as uniquely multifaceted and, at its core, human-centered. Library leadership is vital to building digital literacy education that explores the human questions right along with the technical ones. To that end, this book will approach digital literacy as comprehensive and continuously in flux. Drawing on the Virginia Tech digital literacy framework, we will define digital literacy as an overlapping set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that help learners navigate and participate in our digital world.
Submit Your Proposal
Please use the proposal form to submit your chapter proposal by Friday, June 27. The proposal should include all contributing authors and their institutions, a working title, tentative book section, and a 200-500 word description of your proposed chapter. We welcome both reflective essays and practical case studies.
Join us for an optional prospective author working session to share your ideas and get feedback, on Wednesday, June 11, at 11:00 AM CDT. Register here.
Final chapters should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words, and first drafts of completed manuscripts will be due in late October or early November. The expected final publication date is Winter 2027.
Please reach out to Julia Feerrar (feerrar@vt.edu) with any questions.