Current Call for Papers
School
Libraries Worldwide is the official professional and
research journal of the International Association of School Librarianship. 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
on any aspect of school librarianship. All papers are double-blind peer
reviewed and adhere to the highest editorial standards.
Story:
Global Reflections on the Role of Story and Narrative in School Librarianship (Volume
19, Number 2, July 2013) This issue of School
Libraries Worldwide is based on the theme of Story: Global Reflections on the Role of Story and Narrative in School
Librarianship.
For this issue we will
provide a space in which stories about story can be told, and in which research
on the use of stories in the widest possible range of aspects of school
librarianship can be reported. Research may address any aspect of story or narrative.
Possible topics include, but are not
limited to:
- Story as a pedagogical tool.
- Narrative and the gathering of
stories of lived experience, as a research approach.
- The place of story and
storytelling in the profession of school librarianship.
- Digital storytelling.
- The impact of social media on
storytelling.
- How professional identities of
school librarians are inspired and developed through story.
- Oral traditions.
- Stories as a form of social
capital in school library advocacy.
- Storytelling and the brain.
- Narrative inquiry as a
qualitative research method.
- Interpretive research.
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 their interests.
School
Libraries Worldwide also welcomes submissions of excellent
research on any topic relating to school librarianship for the open portion of
the journal.
Submission guidelines are available
online at School Libraries Worldwide and
papers can be submitted online at http://slw.cci.fsu.edu Deadline for submissions of full
papers: April 1, 2013.
General suggestions and inquiries for
the journal may be sent to:
Dr. Nancy Everhart and Dr. Marcia A.
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
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