Call for Reviewers: The Tech Static

Call for Reviewers: The Tech Static

The Tech Static, a new technology book review outlet for librarians launching this November, is seeking regular reviewers for ebooks and prepublication ebooks. Please be comfortable with technology and with the prospect of reviewing guides to programming languages and other technology-related topics, as well as with reviewing materials in electronic format. Experience with collection development in this area a plus.

Interested? Email rachel@thetechstatic.com with the following information:
1) Your name, job title, and employer
2) A paragraph or two about your relevant background
3) A short (~100-word) sample review of any technology-related title.
4) Whether you’re comfortable reviewing unfinished prepublication ebook versions of upcoming titles, or only full ebooks.

Visit The Tech Static at http://www.thetechstatic.com

Call for Book Reviewers (Library Journal)

Call for Book Reviewers (Library Journal)

September 22, 2008
I am recruiting additional Library Journal book reviewers in the following areas in which I assign books for review: history, historical biography/memoir, economics/business/management, political science/current events/international affairs, African American history, social sciences, travel (guides and memoir), religion/spirituality, gardening and sports!

Please email me at margaret.heilbrun@reedbusiness.com if you are interested in applying to undertake assigned reviews in any of these areas and I will email back the requisite forms and information.

Many thanks!

Library Journal Call for Reviewers

Library Journal Call for Reviewers

URL: http://www.libraryjournal.com/

LJ Call For Reviewers Library Journal is seeking book reviewers in the following categories: biography, business/economics, communications, history (Ancient through 20th century, U.S. and non-U.S.), law/crime, political science/current events (domestic and international), and social science.

You: a librarian or academic with subject knowledge, able to read and assess books in your area with efficiency. Your reviews appear under your byline. Please send resume, subject interests, and a short writing sample to Margaret Heilbrun (mheilbrun@reedbusiness.com).

Call for Book Reviewers: Canadian Journal of History_/_Annales canadiennes d'histoire

Call for Book Reviewers: Canadian Journal of History_/_Annales canadiennes d'histoire

The _Canadian Journal of History_/_Annales canadiennes d'histoire_, Canada's premier journal for the general study of world histories, seeks reviewers for books in a range of fields and topics. We encourage interested scholars to visit our website (www.usask.ca/history/cjh) for guidelines and a list of available books. If you have not reviewed with us before, we also ask that you fill out our online form for reviewers, easily accessed at the same website.

Reviewers need not be Canadian or affiliated with a Canadian university. However, federal funding guidelines make it necessary for us to require that, with only rare exception, reviewers hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree.

For contact information and guidelines, or to ask any questions, for contributors, see our website or write us at cjh@usask.ca.

Call for Book Reviews: OTHER VOICES -- The eJournal of Cultural Criticism

Call for Book Reviews: OTHER VOICES -- The eJournal of Cultural Criticism

http://www.othervoices.org

ISSN 1094-2254
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Other Voices is currently soliciting reviews of scholarly texts in the arts
and humanities.

Please feel free to consult our current list of books received
(http://www.othervoices.org/books.html), or suggest alternative volumes for review.

Authors interested in reviewing a volume should contact us at reviews@othervoices.org with the book's title and a brief statement describing your qualifications as a reviewer.

Reviews should be between 1500 and 3000 words.

Please see our notes for contributors (http://www.othervoices.org/sub.html) for style sheet details.

We prefer to receive contributions as email attachments in either MS Word, .rtf or WordPerfect formats.

*** About the Journal***

Other Voices is an award-winning, open-access, electronic journal of cultural criticism published at the University of Pennsylvania. Founded in March 1997, Other Voices regularly publishes provocative essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, lecture transcriptions, audio lectures, multimedia projects, translations and reviews in the arts and humanities. Other Voices
is dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary dialogues while simultaneously maintaining respect for the strengths of traditional academic disciplines.

*** Contact Information ***

Regular Mail:

Other Voices
Attn: Book Review Editor
P.O. Box 31907
Philadelphia, PA 19104-1907 USA


E-mail:

editors@othervoices.org

To subscribe to the Other Voices announcements list, please send an email to
the above address with the subject line "subscribe" and you will be promptly
added.

Best Regards,

Vance Bell, Editor-in-Chief
Joshua Schuster, Editor

Call for Reviewers: TER (Technology Electronic Reviews)

Call for Reviewers: TER (Technology Electronic Reviews)

I would also like to take this opportunity for LITA members with an interest in reviewing books on current technology to join the Technology Electronic Reviews (TER) listserv to find out about books and other materials for review. Please send me (at kalfatovicm@si.edu an email with
your name and email address) and you'll be added to the distribution list.

To find out more about TER and read the current issue, visit:
http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litapublications/ter/tertechnology.htm

Martin Kalfatovic
TER Editor

Head, New Media Office and
Preservation Services Department
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
NHB 24 Mezz, MRC 154
Washington, DC 20013-7012
202-633-1705
kalfatovicm@si.edu