Dear colleagues,
Are you looking for an opportunity to publish? Is
the tenure clock ticking away, reminding you that you need to include more
publications in you file? Do you have an idea related to art and design
librarianship that you've been aching to develop? The Art Libraries
Society of North American (ARLIS/NA) may provide just the right opportunity for
you.
Proposals for titles in the society's Occasional Papers
series are invited. These are some suggestions for topics:
- Library instruction for students in design disciplines
(including exercises). (This would be a second volume to Occasional
Paper No. 13, Library Instruction for Students in Design Disciplines:
Scenarios, Exercises and Techniques, edited by Jeanne M.
Brown.)
- A survey of art and design librarians' salaries.
(There is already one author interested, and co-authorship is a real
possibility.)
- A survey of software for visual resources
collections.
- Art museum library handbook.
- Cataloging architectural documents.
All ideas are welcome, however. Proposals
submitted to me by April 1, 2004 will be given first consideration and will be
on the agenda of the publication committee's annual meeting in
mid-April.
For proposal guidelines, please consult the ARLIS/NA Web
site's "Guidelines for Authors and Editors," paragraph 3, Procedures for
Submitting a Prospectus, http://www.arlisna.org/op_guide.html.
Feel free to contact me if you are interested and have any
questions.
--Paul Glassman
Editor, ARLIS/NA Occasional
Papers