School Libraries Worldwide

Current Call for Papers

School Libraries Worldwide is the official professional and research journal of the International Association of School Librarianship. It is published twice yearly, in January and July, and is available online and through select periodical databases. School Libraries Worldwide publishes new works of current research and scholarship on any aspect of school librarianship. All papers are double-blind peer reviewed and adhere to the highest editorial standards.

International Perspectives on School Library Education: From Face to Face to Distance Education (Volume 18, Number 2, July 2012)

This issue of School Libraries Worldwide will center on the theme of International Perspectives on School Library Education: From Face to Face to Distance Education. In the ten years since the last SLW issue on school library education (see volume 6, number 2), much has happened to the profession of school librarianship and the way in which education programs are delivered. For this issue, we encourage papers that explore how changes in the profession as well as in education delivery systems have influenced school library education programs.

This issue will provide an opportunity for researchers to share their work relating to school library education.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • State-of-the-art in instructional technology;
  • School library education and national/state standards;
  • Global issues in school library education;
  • Practitioners as school library educators;
  • Collaborations and partnerships in school library education;
  • Comparative studies in face to face and distance education.

School library researchers are invited to submit papers reporting their own original research that has not been published elsewhere. Authors who wish to know more about the issue theme should contact the editors to discuss
revision.

School Libraries Worldwide also welcomes submissions of excellent research on any topic relating to school librarianship for the open portion of the journal.

Deadline for submissions of full papers: April 15, 2012.

Authors interested in contributing to this issue should contact the guest editors, Allison G. Kaplan at agkaplan@wisc.edu or Gail Dickinson at GDickins@odu.edu

Submission guidelines are available online at School Libraries Worldwide submission guidelines

Submissions and suggestions for the journal should be sent to:

Dr. Marcia A. Mardis and Dr. Nancy Everhart
Editors, School Libraries Worldwide
School of Library and Information Science
College of Communication & Information
The Florida State University
Tallahassee FL 32306-2100 USA
Fax: 1 (780) 492-7622
E-mail: slw@fsu.edu

Last updated February 2012 (KSB)