Wednesday, February 4, 2009

ANLTCwriters

Welcome to the new blog for ANLTC writers.

This blog aims to facilitate exchange of information between ANLTC writers. I hope you will find it useful. Please post information about publishing opportunities, conference calls for papers and other related information that may be of use to us as a community of writers.

Also, I welcome suggestions, ideas, comments and general dialogue about academic writing.

Helen

2 comments:

Jorie Porter said...

We are seeking chapter proposals for a new edited collection on corporate libraries. This book will be an edited collection of chapters describing best practices in a variety of corporate libraries worldwide, providing both a foundation of knowledge for scholars in library and information science areas and information and ideas for practicing corporate librarians. The editors have obtained an interest from the publisher, and a contract is pending a list of potential chapters and contributors.
Please submit a proposal of 250 words, or a full chapter, for consideration.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
-Planning a Corporate Library, including chapters on topics such as design, architecture, and facility planning, budget and staffing, long range planning, technology planning, hiring, recruiting, and training for a new library.
-Collaborations, including chapters on interlibrary lending and borrowing, joint libraries, consortia and other types of collaborations and organizations.
-Technology, including chapters on best practices, discussions of the use of technology, and the scope of a corporate librarian’s job such as what technological support they offer, web sites and internet databases in relations to corporate librarianship, electronic services.
-Staffing, including human resources, continuing education, professional networking, core competencies, management, routines
-Communications, including articles regarding communications; for example, with satellite offices, with overseas branches, interdepartmental, computer mediated communication, and more.
-Knowledge Management/ Organization, including topics covering how Corporate Libraries manage data and knowledge and organize it, and share it.
-Special Issues This section will include articles about any special issues pertaining to Corporate Librarianship, such as current challenges, copyright and other legal topics, especially those that are unique to corporate librarianship.

Please send chapters or chapter proposals by July 28, 2009, through email to:
Sigrid Kelsey and Jorie Porter, editors
sigridkelsey@gmail.com

Please feel free to forward this announcement where appropriate

Jess Eustace said...

Can people make suggesti9ons to help when working collaboratively how contributers to a peice manage the question of voice. Should the joint authors decide on third person? Is it appropriate to have differnt voices - in the case where you are doing a case study. Is there a best practice?