Call for Chapters: Making Libraries Integral in the Lives of Baby Boomers
Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Editor: Carol Smallwood, Bringing Arts into the Library, ed., (ALA Editions, 2014); Library Services for Multicultural Patrons to Encourage Library Use co-ed., (Scarecrow Press, 2013)
Chapters sought for an anthology by practicing public librarians and LIS faculty in the United States and Canada: creative, practical how-to chapters on strengthening and expanding services to the age group called baby boomers. Possible topics: fostering positive staff attitudes; encouraging endowments and advocacy; programming and workshops; maximizing their experience as volunteers; instruction in technology; needs assessment surveys; genealogy and oral histories; grants.
Concise, how-to chapters based on experience to help colleagues totaling 3,000-4,000 words, or two chapters that come to 3,000-4,000 words. No previously published or simultaneously submitted material. One, two, or three authors per chapter; if two chapters they are to be by the same author(s). Compensation: one complimentary copy per 3,000-4,000 word accepted submission, discount on more copies.
Please e-mail titles of 2-3 topics each described in 2 sentences by January 30, 2014 with brief biography sketch(s); place BOOMERS and Last Name on the subject line to: smallwood@tm.net
