Call for Papers Issue 16: Children in the Library (LIBREAS)

Call for Papers Issue 16: Children in the Library (LIBREAS)

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Children represent one of the largest groups of patrons served by the public library. This may be one of the reasons why many positive associations are linked to these institutions in society. Despite their importance, children lack representation within the LIS literature or, if they are subjects of literature, authors refer to well-intentioned but more paternalistic strategies which result in one-sided approaches. For instance, literacy is one of the main issues at which libraries work is aimed. However, a short glance in public libraries reveals that literacy programs constitute only one small portion of the children’s interaction with the library – children mostly make use of a library as a playground and a place for adventure.

Apart from the practice-oriented discussion, LIS literature also lacks interdisciplinary connectivity to fields such as pedagogy, educational research, anthropology and sociology to name a few. One may assume that the already achieved knowledge which scrutinizes one-sided approaches to learning activities may influence the discussion. One may also expect a growing influence of the ongoing debate about new perspectives on early childhood education in the LIS literature.

Last but not least, recent demographic changes within western societies are changing the social structure that children inhabit. On one hand, immigration leads to a higher proportion of children with multi-cultural backgrounds; on the other hand children are growing up in a more distinguished media landscape. These developments are undeniable and cause new challenges in practise. Nevertheless, there is a striking discrepancy between reality and scientific discourse.

LIBREAS aims at shedding light on this discrepancy and proposes an interdisciplinary symposium held in Berlin complementing issue #16. Our purpose is to bring together representatives from the respective disciplines and librarians in order to debate the benefits and limits of library work for children.

General sample questions for discussions are:
• What is the impact of library work on children and how can it be assessed in an evidence-based manner?
• What is the relationship between libraries and educational institutions?
• Do librarians take enough advantage of educational research?
• What does an appropriate learning environment of children look like? What kind of needs must such an environment fulfill?
• What are children doing in the library and what keeps them there?
• Why do children stop going to a library when they grow up?
• How does library work reflect diverse cultural and social backgrounds of children?
• Are children really “digital natives”?
• What kind of media do children expect in the library and elsewhere?
As an E-Journal with an editorial board both in Berlin (Germany) and St. Paul, Minnesota (US) we aim to compare the situation in the US and Germany both on a national and on a local level.
• Social and demographic conditions
• Ambitions and realities of library programs
• The role of immigrants (e.g., in Germany it seems that library services are often aim at white, middle-class kids)
• Personal experiences of parents, librarians, teachers and children
• Best-Practises apart from read-aloud, gaming and Harry Potter parties
LIBREAS is looking forward to your fresh and controversial contributions on the topic of “Children in the Library”. Indeed, we welcome new perspectives on that issue not outlined above, too. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting us.

Proposed submission deadline: End of October 2009

CFP: 2009 Child and the Book Conference for graduate students

CFP: 2009 Child and the Book Conference for graduate students
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, May 1-3, 2009

Call for Papers:

Vancouver Island University is pleased to host the 2009 Child and the Book Conference for graduate students, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, May 1-3, 2009. The keynote speakers will be noted scholars Perry Nodelman and Mavis Reimer. For conference information, see www.viu.ca/childandbook . The registration page will be posted shortly after the close of the call-for-paper deadline, as will a revised conference schedule.

We particularly invite proposals for papers exploring the conference theme, although all scholarly papers on topics related to children's literature will be given careful consideration.

The theme of this year's conference is This Land is Our Land, and we welcome proposals on the following topics:

• Children's literature and place
• Children's literature and heritage
• Children's literature and Indigenous Peoples
• Children's literature and ecology
• Children's literature and animals

Proposals for 20-minute presentations should be 250 words and should indicate texts to be discussed and the theoretical/critical framework underpinning your argument. Also include a separate brief biography for use by panel chairs when introducing presenters.

Please submit your proposal by Jan. 15, 2009, to the following:
Virginia MacCarthy
Faculty of Education
Vancouver Island University
900 Fifth St.
Nanaimo, BC,
Canada V9R 5S5
Or electronically to Virginia.MacCarthy@viu.ca

Terri Doughty
Vancouver Island University
900 Fifth St.
Nanaimo, BC,
Canada
V9R 5S5

Email: d.wilford@shaw.ca
Visit the website at http://www.viu.ca/childandbook

CFP: Upcoming issues of Education Libraries (peer reviewed journal)

CFP: Upcoming issues of Education Libraries (peer reviewed journal)

We are accepting papers for the next two issues of Education Libraries, a peer-reviewed journal published by SLA's Education Division. This journal is indexed in ERIC, and Wilson Library Literature and Information Science. For information about the journal, instructions for authors, and full-text copies of selected back issues, please go to http://units.sla.org/division/ded/education_libraries.html. You do not have to be a member of SLA or the Education Division to publish in Education Libraries. We welcome additional book reviewers.

Call for papers, Spring 2008:
The next issue will focus on children's resources.
Deadline: February 1, 2008

Call for papers, Fall 2008:
Topics could include archives and digitization; historical collections; digital libraries.
Deadline: August 1, 2008

Email queries and manuscripts to co-editor, Jacqueline Snider at
jacqueline-snider@uiowa.edu.

Thank you.

Jacqueline Snider

CFP: Education Libraries (from SLA's Education Division)

CFP: Education Libraries (from SLA's Education Division)

We are accepting papers for the next two issues of Education Libraries, a peer-reviewed journal published by SLA's Education Division. This journal is indexed in ERIC, and Wilson Library Literature and Information Science. For information about the journal, instructions for authors, and full-text copies of selected back issues, please go to http://units.sla.org/division/ded/education_libraries.html. You do not have to be a member of SLA or the Education Division to publish in Education Libraries. We welcome additional book reviewers.

Call for papers, Spring 2008:
The next issue will focus on children's resources.
Deadline: February 1, 2008

Call for papers, Fall 2008:
Topics could include archives and digitization; historical collections;
digital libraries; workforce development and information literacy.
Deadline: August 1, 2008

Email queries and manuscripts to co-editor, Jacqueline Snider at
jacqueline-snider@uiowa.edu.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS AT STORIES FOR CHILDREN MAGAZINE

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS AT STORIES FOR CHILDREN MAGAZINE

We're in need of the following:

NONFICTION articles for ages 3-6 (no more than 400 words)
NONFICTION articles for ages 7-9 (400 to 800 words)

POETRY - see new Guidelines

We're in particular need for FEBRUARY and MARCH 2008 issues. Please read the Submission Guidelines page before submitting.

SFC is not a themed magazine but if you need a kickstart, check out our Monthly Idea Calendar.
We're always short on crafts, recipes, games and puzzles so if you have any tucked away, send them in.

SFC welcomes new writers. This would be a great time for you to submit.

Good Luck and Happy Writing!

Wendy Dickson
Assistant Submissions Editor
Stories for Children
http://storiesforchildren.tripod.com

VS Grenier
Stories for Children Magazine and Newsletter Editor
http://storiesforchildren.tripod.com
Stories for Children My Space Page
http://myspace.com/storiesforchildrenmag

Children's and Teen Author
www.vsgrenier.com

CFP: The Picture Book (Special issue of ImageTexT)

CFP: The Picture Book (Special issue of ImageTexT)

The “Picture Book” special issue of ImageTexT is accepting paper submissions that address the history, form, narrative strategies, and cultural uses of the picture book. Submitted essays should work toward furthering ImageTexT’s ongoing investigation of the material, historical, theoretical, and cultural implications of visual textuality.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• The history of the picture book and its uses (pedagogical, political, cultural).
• The influence of technological innovation on the production, form, and narrative content of picture books.
• Questions of the tactile and sensorial in picture books.
• The relationship between picture books and comics.
• The relationship between picture books and other aesthetic forms (e.g., film, music, theatre, painting).
• The picture book as “literature” – or the picture book in relation to questions of the literary.
• The relationship between awarding (e.g., the Caldecott Award) and the production and evaluation of picture books.
• The interplay between word and image in the picture book.
• Picture book adaptations of folk/fairy tales, novels, films, cartoons, etc.
• Picture books and nostalgia.
• Questions of audience and/or the function of the reader (e.g., the picture book’s interpellation of the child reader, the “crossover appeal” of picture books, picture books for adults, the influence of the new media and postmodernism on the role of the reader and strategies of
reading picture books).

Please send completed papers in MLA citation format to aulanow@english.ufl.edu by October 15, 2007.

Articles submitted should usually not exceed 10,000 words including notes and should be presented to generally accepted academic standards. Please submit all articles by sending an email with the submission attached (including images, etc). If you cannot send attachment of this size please send a copy of your article to the address below. All postal mail submissions should include a copy of the article in electronic form on either a floppy disk or a CD along with three (3) print copies of the article. Articles should be submitted preferably in HTML, or as Microsoft Word, StarOffice, or OpenOffice documents. Webbed essays are encouraged.

Copies of images used in articles should be submitted separately from the body text, as .zipped archives of no larger than 3 MB each. (Larger archives should be submitted via CD-Rom or made accessible to the editor of the issue for download by ftp or WWW page). Images should be in color (where appropriate) and in the highest resolution possible, up to 300 dpi. Acceptable image file formats include .tiff, .psd, .pdf, .png, and .jpg (with minimal compression).

Alternatively, send hard copies to:

Anastasia Ulanowicz, Assistant Professor
Department of English
Univ. of Florida
4008 Turlington Hall
P.O. Box 117310
Gainesville, FL 32611-7310

The guest editor for the special issue is Anastasia Ulanowicz. If you
have any questions, please email aulanow@english.ufl.edu

CFP: Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature (South Atlantic Modern Language Association)

CFP: Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature (South Atlantic Modern Language Association)

Children's Literature Discussion Circle — Call For Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
November 9-11, 2007
Atlanta, Georgia
Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown.

In order to examine children's literature through the lens of nostalgia, possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following options:

*Updating comics, cartoons, or toys for a new generation of children
*Children's literature and/or cultural objects as souvenirs
*Nostalgic longing for aspects of childhood
*Recapturing or re-imagining childhood
*Historical toys/books translated into new mediums
*Selective cultural memory and amnesia
*Ascribing value to collected objects, children's museums, the role of the collector

Please submit questions, one-page abstracts, or eight-page papers by
March 13, 2007 to Julie A. Sinn at julie.sinn@gmail.com.

SAMLA Website: http://www.samla.org/convention/convention.htm

CFP: Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature

CFP: Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature
Deadline: March 13, 2007

Children's Literature Discussion Circle Call For Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
November 2007
Atlanta, Georgia

In order to examine children's literature through the lens of nostalgia, possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following options:

*Updating comics, cartoons, or toys for a new generation of children
*Children's literature and/or cultural objects as souvenirs
*Nostalgic longing for aspects of childhood
*Recapturing or re-imagining childhood
*Historical toys/books translated into new mediums
*Selective cultural memory and amnesia
*Ascribing value to collected objects, children's museums, the role of the collector

Please submit questions, one-page abstracts, or eight-page papers by March 13, 2007 to Julie A. Sinn at julie.sinn@gmail.com.