The Journal of Southern Academic and Special Librarianship

The New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship

The editors are currently seeking articles for this year's edition of the New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship. This is an international journal designed to explore the range of issues of current concern to those working in the fields of children's literature and children's librarianship around the world. They are interested in papers offering critical assessments of literature for children and adolescents; the management of library services for children and adolescents; education issues affecting library services; information technology; user education and the promotion of services; staff education and training; collection development and management; book and media selection; research in literature and library services for children and adolescents.

The editors will be pleased to consider for publication original manuscripts which deal with any of this broad range of themes. Papers should not have been published previously, or submitted elsewhere simultaneously. Papers presented at conferences may be considered if they are unlikely to be published in a conference proceedings volume. The deadline for papers is Tuesday 31st July 2001.

Information Research

The ACE Journal

This is a juried publication of the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English, USA) Assembly on Computers in English published twice each year. The editor seeks articles that relate to teaching English at all levels (primary through graduate school) with the aid of computers. All areas of English studies and language arts are of interest. Individual editions of the journal focus on themes that the Assembly has identified as important to the profession. Deadlines and publications dates are best guesses and contingent upon sufficient numbers of articles being accepted for publication.

Volume 3 Issue 2 (published July 2001): Design, Discovery, and Serendipity in Computer-Based Classrooms. Deadline for submissions, 15 June 2001.

Volume 4 Issue 1 (published December 2001): What Computers Can (and Cannot) Do in the English Classroom. Deadline for submissions, 15 November 2001.

The journal publishes research reports, scholarly essays, action-research reports, and reviews of software and books. Submissions should not currently be under review by other publications; length is generally from 2500-5000 words; documentation conforms to the MLA or APA guidelines; documents should conform to the NCTE guidelines for non-sexist language

Nupedia

Call for papers - Academic Exchange Quarterly

T.G. McFadden is editing an issue of AEQ on information literacy. He should like to have papers by librarians and/or other faculty members on this topic, according to the manuscript guidelines descibed on the AEQ Web site. If you have a (short) paper just burning to get out, take a look. If you have a friend who might want to contribute something, please let him/her know. Here�s how to find out about the topic and the process:

Management Science

A special issue of Management Science will deal with creating, retaining and transferring Knowledge. The topic of knowledge management has generated considerable interest in recent years. Evidence is beginning to accumulate on how organisations create, retain and transfer knowledge. This special issue of Management Science aims to synthesise what is known about knowledge management and stimulate new research on this important issue.

Research on knowledge management has tended to accumulate in relatively isolated intellectual communities. There has been relatively little consideration of how developments in one community relate to research in another. As a result, important tensions exist across communities. For example, what is the role of dense versus sparse networks in knowledge management? Similarly, how do redundant versus novel experiences affect learning? What kind of organisational environment is most conducive to the creation, retention, and transfer of knowledge?

Papers are sought that identify the factors that promote the creation, retention, and transfer of knowledge as well as the consequences of knowledge management for organisational performance. We are also seeking papers that address the trade-offs and relations between the creation, retention, and transfer of knowledge. We are especially interested in empirical papers and invite submissions based on diverse methods and different levels of analysis. After the first round of reviews authors of the most promising papers will be invited to a Special Issue conferenceon knowledge management at Carnegie Mellon University.

All papers will be subject to a rigorous refereeing process. Manuscripts must not exceed 32 double-spaced pages (in 12 pt type) including all tables and figures. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2001. Submit five copies of papers to one of the guest editors below.

Linda Argote, Bill McEvily, Ray Reagans
Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Room 316
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

The Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply

This journal is always looking for articles concerning ILL software systems. Even if we have published articles previously, the software evolves over time, so that new data is needed. Although technical articles are good, experiences with selection, installation and operation are also useful. Unlike the recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education demonstrating the sheer nastiness of some article reviewers, The Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply does not allow nasty or unfair behaviour on the part of referees. Our reviewers are fair and supportive. We all want to publish, but we have a million reasons to delay. The largest impediment to publishing is just not starting. As Nike says, "just do it".

Transforming Traditional Libraries

Contributions invited

American Studies

Although scholarship on libraries has told us much about the user in the life of the library, it has told us considerably less about the library in the life of the user. How much do we really know about the place of these ubiquitous institutions in American society and culture? How should we analyse the role of libraries in the modern information age? The Fall 2001 issue of American Studies seeks papers that analyse the American library as an agency of culture. The Editors welcome papers that bring new methodological, theoretical, geographic, and cultural perspectives to the American library in its past or present forms, and that evaluate in new ways the cultural agencies performed by libraries in American life, including: concepts of the library; libraries as contested sites for the production, storage, and dissemination of �cultural capital� (public and private libraries, archives, the USIA, bookmobiles, special collections, etc.); the social and psychological history of reading facilitated by libraries; the material history of libraries (design, architecture, furniture, impact of new technology, etc.); the library�s interface with particular communities (prisons, hospitals, churches, factories, etc.); the organisation and sociology of knowledge (librarianship and the professions, cataloguing and classification systems, etc.); the use and appropriation of libraries by particular populations (Asian, Hispanic, African and Native Americans, children, homeless, immigrants, workers, women, gays and lesbians, etc.); the representation of libraries and librarians in literature, film, television, the arts, etc.

Submissions should: conform to style conventions found in American Studies; not exceed 6,000 words (excluding endnotes); and be accompanied by a 100-word abstract. Authors are asked not to put their names on the manuscript. All inquiries should be address to issue editors. Deadline for submission: 1 February 2001. Send one copy of the manuscript to each of the issue editors: