Call for Chapters: The Advances in Library and Information Science Book Series

ABOUT THE SERIES:

The Advances in Library and Information Science (ALIS) Book Series comprises high-quality, research-oriented publications on the continuing developments and trends affecting public, school, academic, and specialized libraries and librarians in the United States and around the world.

MISSION:

The ALIS book series aims to expand the body of library science literature by covering a wide range of important and timely topics affecting the profession, particularly those relating to technological advances, digitization of resources, and cutting-edge services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:


  • Academic libraries in the digital age
  • Alternatives to Dewey
  • Archive management
  • Building and space planning
  • Cases on library management
  • Cataloging and classification
  • Censorship
  • Collaborative learning and libraries
  • Collection development
  • Community outreach
  • Copyright/fair use
  • Digital humanities
  • Digital libraries
  • Digital library economics
  • Digital literacy
  • Digitization centers
  • Diversity in libraries
  • Electronic resources
  • Ethical practices in libraries
  • Evidence-based librarianship
  • Effective weeding practices
  • Free versus subscription-based electronic resources
  • Fundraising in libraries
  • Future of computing in libraries
  • Green libraries
  • Human resources management
  • Human side of reference/information services
  • Image management
  • Information literacy
  • Institutional repositories
  • Intellectual freedom
  • Interlibrary loans
  • Weblogs and libraries
  • Joint-use libraries
  • Librarianship and human rights
  • Libraries as community centers
  • Library education
  • Library performance and service
  • Library 2.0
  • Library budgets in times of recession
  • Managing libraries
  • Marketing library services
  • Mobilization of reference librarians and reference services (iReference)
  • Open access
  • Outreach, promotion, and advocacy
  • Paraprofessionals in libraries
  • Patents/trademark services
  • Professional development
  • Public Library Funding
  • RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) in libraries
  • Reader’s Advisory
  • Remote access to library collections
  • Return on Investment (ROI) in libraries
  • Resource sharing in libraries
  • Safety and security in libraries
  • Service learning in libraries
  • Scholarly communications for libraries
  • Social networking technologies
  • Staffing and salaries
  • Subject specialists in libraries
  • Technologies affecting libraries
  • University libraries in developing countries
  • User-centered technologies and libraries
  • Virtual reference services
  • Visual literacy
  • Worldwide digital reference services in libraries

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL

To submit a proposal for a new ALISR publication, IGI Global asks that you please provide the following details on your vision for your publication:

  • A SYNOPSIS of your proposed publication, including a concise definition of the subject area
  • APPROXIMATE WORD COUNT and BOOK PLATFORM intended, e.g., Authored book, Edited book, Case book, Encyclopedia, Handbook of Research, etc. (for more information on the differences between these and other book types, see http://new.igi-global.com/AuthorsEditors/AuthorEditorResources/PublicationInformation.aspx)
  • 5-10 INDEXING KEYWORDS for your proposed subject area
  • OBJECTIVES AND MISSION of your proposed publication, including explation of why it should be published
  • UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS of your proposed publication, including information on how it is distinguished from existing titles on the same topic (if applicable)
  • PROSPECTIVE AUDIENCE for the publication and how the availability of such literature will aid this prospective audience
  • POTENTIAL USES for your publication, identifying context(s) in which the book will be utilized (e.g., reference collections, upper-level course supplement, a resource for instructors, etc.)
  • EXISTING COMPETING PUBLICATIONS and their advantages and disadvantages in comparison to your proposed publication (please include full title, author name, and ISBN)
  • TENTATIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS, listing all possible areas of coverage
  • PLAN FOR REACHING CONTRIBUTORS, including identifying networks, creating web site for call for papers, distributing information at conferences, etc.
  • A COPY OF YOUR VITAE, listing education and publication records FOR EACH EDITOR / AUTHOR

CONTRIBUTING A CHAPTER

If you would like to contribute a chapter to the edited collections already in the works, please forward your request to the appropriate editor directly.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

Nancy  Mactague
Nancy J. Mactague currently provides reference, instruction, and outreach services at Aurora University in Illinois and also been a university library director and art librarian.  She has a special interest in the provision of academic student support services in higher education, about which she has spoken and been published in the United States and Europe.  She holds Doctor of Education and Master's degrees in Art History and Library Science.


Paul Glassman
Paul Glassman is Associate Professor and Director of the Library at Felician College, the Franciscan College of New Jersey, and teaches art librarianship and library design in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers. He co-edited the Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship, published in London by Facet, and is a frequent reviewer and contributor to Library Journal.


Brian Coutts
Brian Coutts is head of the Department of Library Public Services at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. He's co-author of three reference books and a contributor to several others. He has also selected the "Best Reference Sources of the Year" for Library Journal for more than two decades, chairs the Resources for College Libraries Editorial Board, and serves on the ACRL Publications Coordinating Committee. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American History from Louisiana State University.


Kathryn Bartelt
Kathy Bartelt, MSLS from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, currently holds the position of Collection Development/Acquisitions Librarian at the University of Evansville Libraries.  Prior to this recent appointment, she served as the Collection Management Librarian at Evansville overseeing circulation and interlibrary loan activities.  She is active in the Indiana Library Federation, serving on the boards of the Indiana Academic Library Association and the ILL/Circulation Division.

Sue Polanka
Sue Polanka is the moderator of “No Shelf Required,” a blog about the issues surrounding e-books for librarians and publishers.  She has been a reference and instruction librarian for 20 years at public, state, and academic libraries in Ohio and Texas and is currently the Head of Reference and Instruction at the Wright State University Libraries in Dayton, Ohio.  She has served on Booklist’s Reference Books Bulletin Advisory Board for 10 years, acting as Chair from 2007-2010, and she also writes a column for RBB, Off The Shelf, discussing electronic reference issues.


Eloise Hitchcock
Eloise Hitchcock is an Associate Professor and Director of the Doris & Harry Vise Library at Cumberland University. Before coming to Cumberland, she was the Associate Library Director at Western Carolina University. She has also previously held positions at Tennessee Technological University, Middle Tennessee State University, University of the South and Berea College. Eloise holds a B.S. degree in history from Technological University and an M.S.L.S. from the University of Tennessee.

Robert T. Ivey
Robert T. Ivey is Catalog Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of Memphis, where he creates original or complex adaptive cataloging records for monographs and audio-visual formats and is an LC Classification specialist. He is also the author of Perceptions of the Future of Cataloging: Is the Sky Really Falling? (Routledge, 2009). He holds a Master’s in Library Science and a Ph.D. in Romance Philology from University of North Carolina.

Margaret Heilbrun
Margaret Heilbrun is associate editor, Library Journal Book Review, where she oversees selecting, assigning, and editing books for review in categories across the humanities and social sciences, as well as professional library literature. She holds an MLS from Columbia University as well as a subject Masters in American Civilization. Prior to coming to Library Journal, she held positions at the New-York Historical Society, including manuscripts cataloger, curator of manuscripts, and library director. She is editor of Inventing the Skyline: The Architecture of Cass Gilbert (Columbia University Press, 2000).


Completed proposals may be forwarded directly to acquisition@igi-global.com.





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