School Libraries Worldwide
Call for Papers
School Libraries as Place, School
Libraries as Space
January 2011 (Volume 17, Number 1)
Editors: Nancy Everhart and Marcia Mardis
School
Libraries Worldwide is the official professional and
research journal of the International Association of School Librarianship
(IASL). It is published twice yearly, in January and July and is available
online and through select periodical databases. School Libraries Worldwide publishes new works of current research
and scholarship in school librarianship. Each issue contains exceptional papers
relating to the issue theme and a selection of papers representing outstanding
research on any aspect of school librarianship. All papers are double-blind
peer reviewed and adhere to the highest editorial standards.
This issue of School Libraries Worldwide will explore the theme School Libraries as Place, School Libraries
as Space. Yi-Fu Tuan wrote in Space
and place: The perspective of experience (2001), “the former [place] provides
the fixity necessary for security and the latter [space] the opportunity for movement
and exploration.” This definition is our point of departure, not our fixed
interpretation. We encourage papers that both affirm and challenge definitions of space and place.
This issue will expand the
opportunities for researchers to share their work relating to space and place
in school libraries and their physical, virtual, philosophical, and social
presences.
Possible topics include, but are not
limited to:
· School
libraries as places and spaces for knowledge sharing and learning in virtual
and physical settings;
· School
libraries as meeting places fostering community;
· Changing
role of school libraries throughout history;
· School
library architecture and school library layout refurbishment;
· School
libraries as third places between classroom and home, home and public library,
etc.;
· School
libraries as meeting places across cultural, social, professional and ethnic boundaries;
· The
interplay between school libraries and digital libraries or virtual learning
environments.
School library researchers are invited
to submit papers reporting their own original research that has not been
published elsewhere. Authors who wish to know more about the issue theme should
contact the editors to discuss possibilities.
School
Libraries Worldwide also welcomes submissions of excellent
research on any topic relating to school librarianship for the open portion of
the journal.
Deadline
for submissions of full papers: September 15, 2010.
Authors interested in contributing to this issue should contact the editors, Marcia
Mardis and Nancy Everhart at [log in to unmask].
Submissions and suggestions for the
journal should be sent to:
Dr. Nancy Everhart and Dr. Marcia
Mardis
Editors, School Libraries Worldwide
School of Library and Information Science
College of Communication & Information
The Florida State University
Tallahassee FL 32306-2100 USA
Fax: 1 (780) 492-7622
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Marcia A. Mardis, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor
Associate Director, The PALM Center
College of Communication & Information
The Florida State University