Wednesday, October 16, 2019

CFP: School Libraries Worldwide Volume 26, Number 1 (January 2020) - The Basics

School Libraries Worldwide Volume 26, Number 1 (January 2020)

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Basics

For the January 2020 issue, School Libraries Worldwide’s editors are especially interested in papers in which The Basics are an aspect of the research’ that is, we are especially interested in papers that center on the core functions of school librarianship and their enduring value. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, empirical research relating to:

  • Reading for pleasure or for academic content;
  • Information seeking processes;
  • Instructional collaboration;
  • Empathetic services; and
  • Collection development and management

School Libraries Worldwide also welcomes submissions of excellent, original research on any topic relating to school librarianship for the open portion of the journal. We are especially interested in research that documents school librarianship in a wide range of cultures, geographic locations, and/or diversities.

School library researchers are invited to submit papers reporting their own original research that has not been published elsewhere.


Deadline for submissions of full papers: December 15, 2019.

Note that all submissions must take place through the online submission system at http://slw.cci.fsu.edu


Authors with questions about contributing to this issue should contact the editors, Marcia Mardis (mmardis@fsu.edu) and Nancy Everhart (everhart@fsu.edu).

Submission guidelines are available online at: http://iasl-online.org/publications/slw/contributors.html


School Libraries Worldwide is the official professional and research journal of the International Association of School Librarianship. Peer reviewed and refereed, it is published twice yearly, in January and July, and is available online and through many leading periodical databases. Selected public access articles are available at http://iasl-online.org/publications/slw/public.html

School Libraries Worldwide publishes new works of current research and scholarship on any aspect of school librarianship. All papers are double-blind peer reviewed and adhere to the highest editorial standards.

Submissions and suggestions for the journal should be sent to:

Dr. Marcia A. Mardis and Dr. Nancy Everhart
Editors, School Libraries Worldwide
School of Information
College of Communication & Information
Florida State University
Tallahassee FL 32306-2100 USA
E-mail: slw@cci.fsu.edu