Do
you work in a library outside of the U.S. and Canada? The Journal of Web Librarianship is seeking
research articles, case studies, and other types of submissions from librarians
around the world. Although JWL has aimed
to be an international journal from the beginning, the bulk of JWL submissions
come from authors at U.S. and Canadian libraries. For this special issue, therefore, JWL will
focus on library web projects and research outside these countries.
Please submit manuscripts for consideration by August 15, 2015
Topics
for the special issue can include (but are not limited to):
• library web page design and
redesigns,
• web project management,
• usability testing of library or
library-related sites,
• cataloging or classification of
Web information,
• user behavior on the web,
• search behaviors,
• social networking and libraries,
• mobile web librarianship,
• digitization or finding aids for unique
collections,
• integrating digital collections
into catalogs / discovery.
Submissions
for this special issue will still undergo a double-blind peer review. However,
to support consistency of organization across the issue and offer support to
authors who use English as a second language, submissions will first undergo
one or more rounds of “collegial review” to provide early feedback to authors
about their manuscripts before submission to the blind peer review process.
In
addition to following the regular JWL manuscript preparation guidelines
authors are asked specifically to provide information in the introduction about
the role and status of libraries in their country or countries, as well as the
state of any relevant technologies in their country relative to their
topic. For example, an article about a
library’s use of social networking to market services would include an
explanation about how social networking technologies are generally used in that
country (level of adoption, purposes, challenges, etc.).
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