Deadline: December 5, 2010
The editors of The Entrepreneurial Librarian, a book to be published by McFarland & Company in 2011, seek chapters that detail library-related entrepreneurial ventures. The book will cover four models of entrepreneurship:
* Intrapreneurship, innovative products and services developed in a library that stayed within the library
* Entrepreneurship, projects that became commercial ventures with financial risk and reward
* Funding entrepreneurship, in which the library developed innovative, non-traditional non-governmental funding sources
* Social entrepreneurship, in which the objective of the project is to raise awareness or educate the public about a social cause.
Like the upcoming conference, The Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians: From Vision to Implementation in March 2011, the book will document examples of entrepreneurial librarians and their activities. The book will be edited by a three-librarian team of editors. Information about the conference and editors can be found at http://zsr.wfu.edu/entrelib/
Chapter requirements:
* Consist of 8,000 - 10,000 words
* Fall within one of the four models described above
* Qualify as original, neither previously published nor simultaneously submitted
Timeline:
* Chapter proposals of approximately 500 words are due by December 5, 2010.
* Authors will be notified by December 31, 2010 of decisions about their inclusion in the book
* Chapters will be due by April 8, 2011
Your proposal should be sent to mmkrautt@uncg.edu with the subject line Book Chapter Proposal and should include:
Name
Title
Institution or company name
Daytime phone number
Chapter title and description of approximately 500 words
If you have any questions about the book, you may contact the editors at:
* Mary Krautter, University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, mmkrautt@uncg.edu
or 336-256-0274
* Mary Beth Lock, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, lockmb@wfu.edu
* Mary Scanlon, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, scanlomg@wfu.edu
