CFP: 2020 Banned Books Symposium (Newburgh, New York - March 7th, 2020)

CFP: 2020 Banned Books Symposium (Newburgh, New York - March 7th, 2020) 

In partnership with Mount Saint Mary College, Southeastern New York Library Council, Dutchess, Rockland, Sullivan, Orange-Ulster, and Ulster School Library Systems, a Banned Books Symposium will be taking place on March 7, 2020 on the campus of Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY. This half-day conference will feature presentations in all capacities of banned and challenged books with the keynote provided by Nick Bruel, New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of children's books including the “Bad Kitty” books.

If you are interested in presenting at this conference, click here to submit your proposal.

Sessions will be formatted in 45-minute blocks with time for Q&A. Topic suggestions include, but are not limited to the following:  

·         K-12 classroom teacher or school librarian experience with a book challenge

·         Using challenged/banned books in the classroom

·         Policies and procedures when a book is challenged

·         Personal experiences with books being challenged/banned

·         Programs surrounding banned books

·         Other relevant topics

Note: Presentation proposals accepted until October 13, 2019.  Accepted proposals will receive notification by October 19, 2019. Questions regarding the proposals may be directed towards Jen Park at jen.park@msmc.edu. 

CFP: 2020 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference—Biographies Area: Philadelphia, PA (April 15-18, 2020)

Call for Papers: 2019 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference—Biographies Area: Philadelphia, PA  (April 15-18, 2020)

Submission Deadline: 11/1/19

The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference will be held on Wednesday April 15 through Saturday April 18, 2020 at the Downtown Marriott Hotel on Market Street in Philadelphia, PA. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.  

The Biographies Area is soliciting papers that examine the connections between biography and popular culture. Papers and full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography are encouraged. Potential topics might include:

– Biography and entertainment, art, music, theater
– Biography and film
– Biography and criminal justice
– Television programs about biography
– Biography and urban legends
– Biography and folklore
– Biography and literature
– Scholarly Biography
– Controversial Biography
– Psychoanalysis and Biography
– Historical Biography
– Political Biography
– Autobiography

Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session.  Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. The deadline is November 1, 2019.

Proposals must be submitted on the conference website.

Thank you for your interest!

Please direct any queries to the Biographies Area chair:
Susie Skarl
Associate Professor/Urban Affairs Librarian
UNLV Libraries
Las Vegas, NV 89154
susie.skarl@unlv.edu OR susieskarl@gmail.com

Call for Chapters - Engaging Undergraduates in Primary Source Research (Rowman & Littlefield's Innovation in Information Literacy series)

Call for Chapters

Lijuan Xu is  soliciting chapter proposals for a book entitled Engaging Undergraduates in Primary Source Research. Part of Rowman & Littlefield’s Innovations in Information Literacy series, this book seeks to present success stories of how faculty and librarians can create and facilitate engaging and productive learning experiences with primary sources in the undergraduate classrooms. The co-authored chapters (5,000 words) by librarians and their faculty partners will showcase the work of librarians from various areas of library operations and their faculty collaborators in different disciplines, including the sciences and social sciences.

Sample topics include:

• Constructing settler colonialism from the indigenous perspectives
• Understanding human-and-nature dynamics through local landscapes
• Exploring the legacy of the Black Arts Movement through music
• Mapping and tracing the globalization of commodities

Each case study should center on how students learn and practice information literacy competencies through their engagement with primary sources. By focusing on competencies that are applicable and transferrable across disciplinary boundaries, the case studies and the featured activities and assignments should be easily adopted by faculty and librarians to enhance or transform their primary source-related teaching practices.

Chapter structure:

• Why the faculty member teaches with primary sources
• The institutional context
• How the faculty-librarian collaboration came about
• What the collaboration involves: conversations, assignments and activities, library sessions and class discussions, etc. - Include guidelines—the ACRL Information Literacy Framework, the Primary Source Literacy guidelines, and discipline-specific guidelines—if they have informed your work.
• Outcomes and assessment
• Reflection
• Conclusion

Timeline:

• 600-800 word chapter proposal and tentative title—November 1, 2019
• Notification of proposal acceptance—early January, 2020
• First draft of the completed chapter—May 31, 2020
• Feedback to contributors—July 31, 2020
• Revised chapter to the editor—September 15, 2020
• Feedback, including if the chapter draft is accepted or declined—November 15, 2020
• Final draft to the editor—February, 2021

Please send your proposal, including author names, titles, and affiliations, to xul@lafayette.edu. 

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Editor: Lijuan Xu, Associate Director of Research & Instructional Services
Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042

Call for volunteer editors for BRASS Business Guides @rusa_brass

The BRASS Business Guides are the most widely known product of BRASS. Generations of business librarians lovingly collected and carefully curated business resources since 1990s. Traditionally, the members of the Education Committee have been taking care of the BRASS Business Guides. This year, the BRASS Exec and Education would like to involve other BRASS members in the editorial process. The teams, led by an Education Committee members, will work on reviewing what is already there and adding new resources. We are also planning a switch to left-hand navigation in December which will require formatting cleanup.

This is an exciting opportunity to network with other member, contribute, and learn from each other!  Please sign up in this spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T7vDNsIMiHlZBwoFsHhQ6nZGY8Gi6sqoSyNUwqNCGK8/edit?usp=sharing

Natasha Arguello

Past BRASS Chair 2019-2020

Head of Research and Education Services

University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries

CFP: Academic Libraries and the Costs of Higher Education (Special Issue of Reference Services Review)

CFP: Academic Libraries and the Costs of Higher Education

Reference Services Review seeks journal article contributions for a special issue that will explore how academic libraries are thinking about, engaging with, and addressing affordability issues on their campuses. This issue will be focused on the micro-level costs faced by our students, such as textbooks or course materials, rather than the macro-level economic challenges in higher education, such as student loans, interest rates, or tuition rates. The issue will be published in August, 2020 (Volume 48, issue 3).

The guest editors are encouraging topics that fall in the broader categories of social justice, the student experience, library administrative decisions or priorities, open education initiatives, and strategic partnerships. Some examples include, but are not limited to:

• Definitions of affordability in specific contexts, such as technical colleges, liberal arts universities, or large research institutions, and discussions on how those definitions are created.
• Sustainability of affordability initiatives.
• Affordability initiatives and implications for student privacy.
• Student perspectives, involvement, and/or partnerships with affordability initiatives.
• Libraries tackling the costs of course materials, including traditional texts, electronic textbooks, non-book supplementary materials, and more.
• Libraries supporting and/or developing open education initiatives on campus.
• Library collaborations with the university, consortia, and other institutions of higher education.
• Library collaborations with publishers and other organizations that are not institutions of higher education.
• Navigating and researching institutional culture and encouraging participation in affordability initiatives.

The journal welcomes conceptual papers, case studies, literature review, and research papers about issues and trends that address specific opportunities or challenges related to academic libraries and the cost of getting an education. For complete author guidelines, please consult the journal’s website (http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=rsr). Potential contributors are encouraged to be creative in developing topics. Abstracts will be evaluated for submission using a rubric, which is included in this CFP.

Examples of previous special issues can be found on the RSR Website:

• Academic Libraries and the 45th President (48/1, 2020)
• Student success (47/1, 2019)
• Library Services to People with Disabilities (46/3, 2018)
• Emergent Literacies in Academic Libraries (46/2, 2018)
• Transfer Students and Students in Transition (45/2 and 45/3, 2017)

The publication schedule for Volume 48, Issue 3 is:
• September 20, 2019: Abstract Submission Due
• October 15, 2019: Abstract acceptance notification
• March 2, 2020: Manuscript due
• March 2 – April 1: Double blind peer review
• April 1 – May 11: Final Revisions
• May 15: Final issue due to Emerald Publishing

Topic proposals should be submitted to Lydia Bello and Chris Granatino via the web form at https://tinyurl.com/rsr-afford. Topic proposals should be no more than 500 words in length. Please feel free to contact them with questions at rsraffordabilityissue@gmail.com

Call for Chapters: Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Handbook for Academic Libraries

This deadline has been extended to September 9.  The editors are especially
interested in submissions relating to assessment of Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion, either as it stands in a particular institution or assessment of
DEI efforts; leveraging institutional politics, and working with the community
outside of our institutions.

Call for Chapter Proposals
Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Handbook for Academic Libraries

Chapter proposals are requested for an edited volume titled Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Handbook for Academic Libraries, to be published by the Association of College and Research Libraries. Head Editors are Brian Lym (Hunter College) and Corliss Lee (University of California, Berkeley), and Co-Editors are Tatiana Bryant (Adelphi University), Jonathan Cain (University of Oregon), and Kenneth Schlesinger (Lehman College).

We are seeking case studies, qualitative research studies, quantitative research studies, survey research studies, and other research-based solutions that can be implemented in today’s libraries. A more detailed outline appears below.

Proposals, including a 600-800 word abstract, should be submitted by September 9, 2019. Notification of acceptance will occur by the end of September 2019. Selected authors should expect to submit a full draft of their article no later than January 14, 2020.

Call for Proposals:
https://tinyurl.com/yyefwazv

Send questions to Head Editors Brian Lym (blym@hunter.cuny.edu) and Corliss Lee (clee@library.berkeley.edu).

Book Outline

The well-documented lack of diversity in the academic library workforce remains problematic, especially given growing expectations that the overall academic workforce be more representative of the increasingly diverse student bodies at our colleges and universities. That the lack of diversity is especially notable among the professional ranks (librarians, library leadership, and administrators) is indicative of inequity of opportunities for people of color and “minoritized” ethnic groups.

Further, remediation of racial and ethnic diversity in the academic library workplace raises broader diversity issues, including individuals with identities outside the gender binary and other individuals who face discrimination due to their sexual orientation, disabilities, religious affiliation, military status, age, or other identities.

Emerging efforts to diversify the academic library workplace are pointedly raising issues of inclusion in libraries where demographic homogeneity has historically prevailed. With Implementing  excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, we hope to capture emerging research and practice that
demonstrate ways academic libraries and librarians can work with and within their institutions to create a more equitable and representative workforce.

Part 1: Leveraging and Deploying Systemic and Bureaucratic/Structural Solutions
Since colleges and universities are hierarchical and complex systems with centralized and bureaucratic controls that can effect or impede transformative change, academic library leaders need to leverage and deploy formal structures and administrative resources to achieve DEI excellence.

Themes (Part 1):

• Recruitment and Hiring
• Retention and Advancement
• Professional Development and Support
• Assessment: Tracking DEI Progress

Part 2: Leveraging Collegial Networks, Politics, and Symbols:
Strengthening and Deepening Change for DEI Excellence; Acknowledging and deploying collegial networks, leveraging informal and formal political power, and symbolic resources to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion excellence in academic libraries.

Themes (Part 2):

• Navigating Collegial Networks and Normative Expectations
• Leveraging the Politics of Organizational Behavior (formal and informal power)
• Reinforcing the Message: Deploying Change Through Deployment of Symbolic Activities

CFP: Bridging the Spectrum: The 12th Annual Symposium on Scholarship and Practice (February 14, 2020 - Washington DC)

Bridging the Spectrum:

The 12th Annual Symposium on Scholarship and Practice

Time:  Friday, February 14, 2020.  

Place: Pryzbyla Student Center, Catholic University of America                                     

The Symposium Planning Committee invites researchers, practitioners and students to submit proposals for the 2020 Bridging the Spectrum Symposium, a forum for sharing research findings, best practices, and works in progress in library and information science. The submission system is now open at http://cuaslis.org/openconf/author/submit.php   

The Symposium will include three types of presentations: briefings, panels, and posters. Briefings are 15-minute descriptions of an innovative practice, project, or research activity. There will be morning and afternoon briefing sessions. 

Authors can organize panels of speakers to present and discuss a theme or a topic. Panels are typically one hour in length. 

Posters are exhibits describing a practice, project, or research activity. Posters will be viewable throughout the day, and there will be a lightning talk during which presenters will highlight their projects. In addition, poster presenters will attend a poster session to discuss their work with attendees.

The submission system is open at http://cuaslis.org/openconf/author/submit.php and the deadline for submission is October 23, 2019.

    

Proposal topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• Community engagement and outreach, including marketing and advocacy for library and information services
• Information services against misinformation and propaganda
• New developments in information organization (linked data, semantic web, etc.)
• Preservation and management of born-digital and digitized resources 
• Management and analysis of data and information
• Library networks and international collaboration
• Technology trends and impact on information services
• Management of information services in cultural institutions

Questions may be directed to the Committee at cua-slis-symposium@cua.edu. 

Important Dates

Proposal Submissions Open: August 23, 2019
Proposals Due: October 23, 2019
Notification of Acceptances: November 15, 2019
Final Program Abstracts Due: December 5, 2019

Final Program released, registration opens: December 16, 2019

Symposium: February 14, 2020

More information about the 2020 Symposium is available 

athttps://lis.catholic.edu/news-events/symposium/2020/index.html

Overviews of past symposia are available on the Symposium website 

at https://lis.catholic.edu/news-events/symposium/index.html

Please feel free to contact the Symposium Committee at cua-slis-symposium@cua.edu if you have questions.

Symposium Committee:

Drs. Ingrid Hsieh-Yee (chair), Sue Yeon Syn, and Jane Zhang

CFP: QQML2020 - 12th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference Barcelona, Spain (26-30 May, 2020)

It is our pleasure to invite you in the Casa Convalescència Universitat Autonόma De Barcelona, Spain (26-30 May, 2020) for the 12th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2020,  http://qqml.org ) which is organized under the umbrella of ISAST (International Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology).

The conference invites Special and Contributed Sessions, Oral Papers, Best Practices, Workshops and Posters.

Details about the types of distribution please visit:  http://qqml.org/description-of-the-contribution/  

Target Group

The target group and the audience are library professionals in a more general sense: professors, researchers, students, administrators, stakeholders, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision makers and managers, information scientists, librarians, records managers, web developers, IT specialists, taxonomists, statisticians, marketing managers, philologist, subject and reference librarians et al.

Main topics

The emphasis is given to “Impact evaluation in Cultural Heritage Organizations”

The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes:

1.            Digital Humanities, Digital Scholarship, Public Humanities

2.            Synergies and common services of cultural heritage organisations

3.            Application of innovative ideas

4.            Best Practices

5.            Information and Knowledge production and Networking

6.            Artificial Intelligence

7.            Big Data, data mining, visualization, data science

8.            Learning analytics, data collection, Curation

9.            Open science, Research Communication

10.         Open access and scholarly communication models

11.         Library as publisher (post publication peer review, predatory journals)     

12.         Usability testing

13.         Information Literacy    

14.         Ethics

15.         Preparing Library for Tomorrow: 21st skills

16.         Management and marketing  

17.         Library and Information Science, Education and Research

18.         Qualitative and Quantitative methods in libraries, museums, archives and information centres   

19.         Metrics Research (Altmetrics, Bibliometrics, Cybermetrics, Scientometrics, Webometrics)         

20.         Tools for Organizational Performance Measurement.     

Special Sessions – Workshops

At the web page: http://qqml.org/call-of-proposals/  you may send proposals:

1.            For Special Sessions (4-6 papers),

2.            Workshops (more than 1-3 sessions) including the title and a brief description at:  secretar@isast.org or from the electronic submission

3.            Abstracts/Papers to be included in the proposed sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers.

Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways

a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation;

b. full papers (not exceeding 12,000 words);

c. posters.

In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference: http://qqml.org/registration/ .

Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://qqml.org/call-of-proposals/

The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines that are located in the above link.

All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the QQML e- journal after the permission of the author(s).

The QQML e-  journal moved to  http://www.qqml-journal.net

Doctoral and Postgraduate Sessions

Professors and Supervisors are recommended to encourage the contribution of Postgraduate theses and dissertations of their students.

In the Doctoral and Postgraduate Sessions the contributors resent their research, the topic, the objectives, the methodology and the ongoing work. 

Post Graduate Student sessions for research are especially organized.

Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2020 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretar@isast.org

QQML 2020 Important Dates

Abstract submissions: December 20, 2019

Notification of acceptance two weeks after submission.

Deadline Paper Submission: 1st of May 2020

Deadline Presentation Submission: 1st of May  2020

Early bird Registration: up to 30th of March  2020

Submit a Proposal or a session to secretar@isast.org

Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be sent directly to the conference secretariat at secretar@isast.org . Please refer to the Session Number, as they are referred at the conference website to help the secretariat to classify the submissions.

For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.qqml.org   or contact the secretary of the conference at : secretar@isast.org

Paper contributors have the opportunity to be published in the QQML e- Journal, which continues to retain the right of first choice, however in addition they have the chance to be published in other scientific journals. QQML e- Journal is included in EBSCOhost

Looking forward to welcoming you in Barcelona,

With our best regards,

On behalf of the Conference Committee

Anthi Katsirikou, PhD

Conference Co-Chair

University of Piraeus Library Director

Head, European Documentation Center

Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals

anthi@asmda.com

CFP: Online Professional Development Presentations (ACRL) @ALA_ACRL

The ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee (PDC) welcomes proposals for online programs that further ACRL members’ professional development, knowledge, and practice. Proposals should be grounded in theory and/or practice. We encourage the use of panels and multiple presenter models to convey a variety of viewpoints. Proposals for programs led by an individual presenter are also accepted. Programs usually run one hour, including time for questions, and are offered via Zoom.

All proposals will be considered, however, we are particularly interested in programs addressing the following topics in 2019-2020:

• Evolving Models for Public Services and Learning Spaces
• Critical Librarianship, Diversity and Inclusion, and Social Justice in Academic Libraries
• Scholarly Communications
• Data Management and Visualization
• Changing Roles of Liaison Librarians and Functional Experts
• Digital Scholarship
• Assessment and Learning Analytics
• Identifying and Developing Future Leaders

To receive full consideration for the 2019-2020 programming year, submissions should be received by Wednesday, September 18th, 2019. Please submit proposals at https://www.acrl.ala.org/ULS/online-program-proposal-submission-form/.

Please direct questions to Laura Gariepy, Chair of the ACRL ULS Professional Development Committee, at lwgariepy@vcu.edu. The Committee’s prior programs can be found here.

CFP: Computers in Libraries 2020 - (Alexandria Virginia - March 31 - April 2, 2020)

CFP: Computers in Libraries 2020
Alexandria Virginia
March 31 - April 2, 2020 

CFP URL: http://computersinlibraries.infotoday.com/2020/CallForSpeakers.aspx

The next generation of technology and people are the focus of our 35th annual Computers in Libraries 2020! Generation Next will be ushering in new and exciting perspectives, strategies, programs, communities and more in the coming years. How can we prepare our info pros, libraries, information services, and communities? How can we develop and use our skills at the forefront of our world to make an impact on humanity and support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? From management and funding tips, to serious evaluation of emerging technology and internet revolutions, to furthering our search and organization skills, to creating new positions of influence, this event has it all! Generation Next will be charged with engaging their communities, campuses, corporations, governments, health and medical establishments, legal firms, and more. Get ideas and insights for moving your library or information service into the 2020 future and beyond!

Hear from innovative libraries and centers of information excellence, network and learn from leaders in the field, and definitely be an active participant in the 35th Computers in Libraries -- the most comprehensive North American conference and exhibition concentrating on all aspects of library technology. The conference offers a multifaceted program designed to meet the needs of librarians, community and information managers, systems professionals, eresource managers, researchers, webmasters and web managers, content curators, digital strategists, and information specialists. The focus of the conference is on emerging and leading edge technology that allows us to engage with, and bring strategic value to, our user communities. It provides the latest information and practices for you to make informed choices for your community -- whether it is an academic, corporate, non-profit, public, or school library community.

Call for Contributors- samples of "before & after" library signage for upcoming book by ALA Editions

Hello Colleagues,

I'm wrapping up a book about Signage and Wayfinding for Libraries (to be published by ALA Editions) and I am seeking "before and after" examples of your library's signage.

If your library was involved in a signage audit or re-design project, and you have great examples of "before & after" signs, please consider sending them to me for possible inclusion in my upcoming book.

I am seeking high resolution images, accompanied by 2-3 paragraphs describing your library signage problem(s) and how you improved it.

If you are interested, please email me and I can send you the permission form and how to send the high resolution images via Dropbox or Google drive.

Mark Aaron Polger
Assistant Professor
Coordinator of Library Outreach 
College of Staten Island, City University of New York 
MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu   

Call for Chapters - Telling the Technical Services Story (ALCTS Monographs) @ALCTS

Telling the Technical Services Story – Call for chapters

ALCTS Monographs is seeking proposals from authors for a new monograph of case studies exploring methods to improve communication in technical services departments.

Summary:

In an era of increased cross-departmental collaboration and decreased budgets, it has become more and more important for technical services departments to be able to communicate their story and demonstrate their positive impact on users – whether to their administration, their colleagues in other areas of the library, or even within their own departments.  The case studies in this monograph will highlight such projects from a range of libraries.

Intended Audience: Technical services managers, administrators, and deans in all types of libraries.

Chapter length: 4,000-5,000 words (Approx. 8-10 pages)

Preliminary Table of Contents:

The monograph is expected to be separated into five sections:

- Communication within technical services

    Sample topics:

·         Improving communication/modeling good communication

·         Communicating across generations

·         Methods of efficient workplace communication

- Communication with colleagues outside of the department

    Sample topics:

·         Communicating with public services/systems departments

·         Communicating workflows and timelines

·         Navigating hidden biases

- Communication with library administration

    Sample topics:

·         Communicating budget needs/expenditures

·         Advocacy for department/staff

·         Planning for new developments/trends in the field

- Communication with outside stakeholders

    Sample topics:

·         Impact of technical services on library services

·         Communicating with outside departments (city, county, campus, etc.)

·         Working with stakeholders on outside projects

- Communication to promote yourself

    Sample topics:

·         Communicating the importance of technical services positions

·         Communicating your value when applying for promotion

 Chapter author(s), please provide:

·         A brief abstract of your proposed chapter (600-800 words)

·         A brief biographical statement of the author(s) 

Please submit proposals by October 1, 2019 to alctsmonographs@lists.ala.org. Notification of acceptance will occur by December 31, 2019. Selected authors should plan to submit the final draft of their chapter no later than May 18, 2020.

CFP: Library Technology: Innovating Technologies, Services and Practices - Special Issue of College & Undergraduate Libraries

LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY: INNOVATING TECHNOLOGIES, SERVICES AND PRACTICES

Technology is ubiquitous and ever evolving in academic libraries ranging from the technology integrated in the physical library space to online presences that connect users to library resources. Keeping up with the constant development to library technology services and practices can be a challenge for any library—there could be financial, space, or staffing constraints in addition to other potential detractors. However, there are also ample opportunities to excel in specific areas of library technology in order to better serve our library users in their research and knowledge creation journey. Academic libraries can share their innovative implementation and management of technologies or technology related services and practices. These conversations drive the future of library technology and technology practices. It all starts with a spark of inspiration.

A CALL FOR PROPOSALS

College & Undergraduate Libraries, a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, invites proposals for a special issue focusing on innovative technologies, technology services and practices in academic libraries. Library technology is broadly defined to be inclusive of the various types of technologies academic libraries support. Potential submissions include research studies, case studies, best practices, or position papers involving:

• Immersive research or programs such as augmented reality or virtual reality

• Makerspaces or creation studios

• Enhancing library space with technology

• Sustainability and library technology

• Assessing library technology services using UX practices

• Evaluating library technology department workflows or functionality

• Securing library technology

• Privacy and ethics with library technology or library technology services

• Internet of Things in an academic library

• Designing academic library websites or technology services

• Using analytics to improve a library service or online presence

• Improving access to library resources via discovery services or library management systems

• Exploring alternative means of authentication or improving current authentication systems

• Incorporating machine learning or library data projects

• Adding technology into library instruction or using innovative technology to teach remote learners

• Teaching technology in an academic library

• Intentionally designing learning spaces with technology

• Using Git or other code repositories for library technology management

• Strategic planning of technology services

• Accessibility of library technologies

• Increasing inclusion using technology

• Innovative or inspiring library technology projects/programs

• Technology trends outside the library we should be watching

Submissions may address opportunities, challenges, and criticism in any of these areas. Topics not listed in these themes may also be considered.

This special issue is set to be published in June 2020.

Submitting a Proposal

Proposals should include a title, an abstract (500 words maximum), keywords describing the article (6 keywords max), and author(s) contact information.

Please submit article proposals via email to Tabatha Farney (guest editor) at tfarney@uccs.edu by September 30th, 2019. Final manuscripts are due by February 15, 2020.

Feel free to contact me with any questions that you may have,

Tabatha Farney, guest editor

Director of Web Services and Emerging Technologies

Kraemer Family Library

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

tfarney@uccs.edu