Dear ARLIS/NA:
If you’ve been looking for the perfect opportunity to publish a paper on a cutting edge project in collection development that you’ve been involved with, here is your chance!
Collection Management seeks well-researched, refereed articles on the topic of shifts in the organization and the changing role of collection management and development within libraries. The
co-ditors are looking for both forward-thinking discussions and practical applications of how the management and work of collection managers and collection management departments have changed. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
• Structural changes within collection management departments, and outcomes
•Collection development and management activities across departments
• Paradigms of cooperative collection development in consortia
• Organizational changes and coordination with digitization projects
• Strategic planning that results in organizational changes
• Patron driven acquisitions and other emerging strategic foci as well as the changing role and work of collection managers
• Preparation in terms of skill sets, experience, and education for collection managers in new paradigms
• Theoretical discussion of the current state of collection development and management in libraries
• Comprehensive literature review on paradigms of collection development and management
• The changing roles of collection managers or subject specialists.
More information, including submission information can be found here:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/WCOLCFP.pdf
--Cara
Cara List
Art and Architecture Librarian
Architecture and Allied Arts Library
5249 University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403