Spatial Literacy in Public Health: CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS!
Chapters are sought for the forthcoming ACRL book Spatial Literacy in Public Health, focusing on collaborative spatial literacy teaching and learning initiatives across the college campus.
Public health has been at the forefront of global news and conversations since early 2020, resulting in an increased awareness of and interest in how public health topics connect with many areas of our lives, big and small, globally and locally. We have seen how public health integrates with data, business, economics, our grocery store, historical precedents, psychological factors, tourism, social media, and much more. Spatial literacy skills overlap with public health topics in many thought-provoking and discussion-friendly ways that can help students realize the relevance of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial literacy skills.
The goals of this book, ultimately, are to tie spatial literacy across the higher education curriculum, under the theme of public health intersections. This book will include content designed to have academic librarians and disciplinary faculty working together, and provide multimodal materials to foster successful in-classroom (or online!) deployment.
Chapter structure:
... Final chapters should be 2,000-3,000 words in length.
Possible chapter topics:
These are just examples of the kinds of spatial literacy + public health intersections we believe could be brought into this book.
Not sure if your idea or collaboration is a good fit? Email the editors!
Public health has been at the forefront of global news and conversations since early 2020, resulting in an increased awareness of and interest in how public health topics connect with many areas of our lives, big and small, globally and locally. We have seen how public health integrates with data, business, economics, our grocery store, historical precedents, psychological factors, tourism, social media, and much more. Spatial literacy skills overlap with public health topics in many thought-provoking and discussion-friendly ways that can help students realize the relevance of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial literacy skills.
The goals of this book, ultimately, are to tie spatial literacy across the higher education curriculum, under the theme of public health intersections. This book will include content designed to have academic librarians and disciplinary faculty working together, and provide multimodal materials to foster successful in-classroom (or online!) deployment.
Chapter structure:
- Each chapter of this book will have a specific spatial literacy focus using GIS tools and will be a collaborative effort between librarians and disciplinary faculty members. Chapters can connect with Covid-19 but that will not be a requirement. To provide a foundation for readers—other teaching librarians and their faculty collaborator(s)—each chapter will begin with an overview of foundational material to provide grounding in the established scholarship. Next, the chapter will include a brief, annotated list of recommended readings that could be assigned to participants ahead of a workshop when appropriate; alternatively, readings could guide or otherwise serve as resources for the collaborators. Finally, each chapter will include hands-on activities and discussion prompts that could be used in the actual instructional session. QR codes will be integrated into the book to navigate users to additional content (e.g., videos, lesson plan modifications, and more) as needed to help set readers up for success in the activity and to save space within the book. Chapters should also factor in modifications for use of open source GIS tools, open access content, and virtual (vs. f2f) learning to help the work reach audiences with limited fee-based tools.
- Authors will be asked to house a student-friendly PowerPoint version of their chapter in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Sandbox. Authors will be encouraged to have relevant screenshots and/or video tutorial content for the activity integrated into the slide deck, rather than into the chapter itself, unless critical. A teaching librarian, hopefully with a disciplinary faculty partner, will be able to use this content as-is…or modify it for the direct instruction portion of a session!
... Final chapters should be 2,000-3,000 words in length.
Possible chapter topics:
These are just examples of the kinds of spatial literacy + public health intersections we believe could be brought into this book.
- Supply chain management
- Temporal comparisons
- Social media campaigns
- Data visualization
- Racial disparities (and other demography themes)
- Immunization
- Epidemiology
- Environmental health/Environmental Science
- Stock market/Global economies
- Community health
- K-12 education
- Recreation/Tourism
Not sure if your idea or collaboration is a good fit? Email the editors!
Our Timeline
Submission due dates:
- Submit your chapter proposal by September 30, 2021
- Notifications will be sent by October 31, 2021
- Chapter drafts will be due February 28, 2022
- Final chapters will be due June 30, 2022
- Anticipated publication date Fall 2023
Submit Your Proposal
Proposal information:
Authors should submit their proposal here: https://forms.gle/
Proposals should include:
1. Discipline or audience addressed
2. 150-word abstract of proposed chapter
3. Description of a sample learning activity
Authors should submit their proposal here: https://forms.gle/
Proposals should include:
1. Discipline or audience addressed
2. 150-word abstract of proposed chapter
3. Description of a sample learning activity
The Editors
Laureen P. Cantwell, Head of Access Services & Outreach and Dr. Tammy Parece, Assistant Professor of Geography, both from Colorado Mesa University
Email SpatialLiteracyACRLBook@
Laureen P. Cantwell (she/her/hers)
Head of Access Services & Outreach
Tomlinson Library
Colorado Mesa University
lcantwell@coloradomesa.edu
Dr. Tammy Parece (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor of Geography
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Colorado Mesa University
tparece@coloradomesa.edu
Email SpatialLiteracyACRLBook@
Laureen P. Cantwell (she/her/hers)
Head of Access Services & Outreach
Tomlinson Library
Colorado Mesa University
lcantwell@coloradomesa.edu
Dr. Tammy Parece (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor of Geography
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Colorado Mesa University
tparece@coloradomesa.edu
