The Journal of Access Services --
**** Call for Papers ****
Volume one, spring 2001

"Access" is one of the most dynamic and powerful words in librarianship
today. Still, even though it is commonly used in the professional
literature, it is extremely hard to define. Access refers first to the
policies and conditions that govern the use of library collections,
services, and facilities. The access concept also describes how, through
interlibrary loan, document delivery, and online networks library users
can obtain materials from a broader universe of information resources.
Over the last decade, collection management librarians have developed
entirely new service models based upon the primary goal of providing
access to resources as a more cost-effective alternative to purchasing
them. Technology has also affected the means by which access is gained.
Many of these services are un-mediated and customized. Administratively,
these and many other concerns have increasingly resulted in the creation
of an emerging organizational unit called "Access Services." Still, the
literature has not yet caught up with current practice in librarianship.
The Haworth Press is launching the Journal of Access Services -- the first
to cover the field -- to fill this gap.

The first issue of the Journal of Access Services will explore the broad
parameters the field through the theme "The Origin, Evolution, and Future
of Access Services."

Papers are now being solicited for topics such as:
* Definitions and functions of Access Services.
*The emergence of the Access Services concept in libraries.
* Issues surrounding the debate over "access versus ownership."
*Organization and administration of Access Services departments
*Training, education, and development of Access Services staff.
*The impact of information technology on Access Services.
*Case studies in effective Access Services operations.
*Copyright, licensing, and legal aspects of electronic access to information.
*Reviews of the recent literature of Access Services.
*Future directions for Access Services.
*Other topics as appropriate for the theme.

For more information, contact the editor:
Gregg Sapp, Head/ Science Library,
SUNY Albany, New Library Building Room 142,
1400 Washington Avenue,
Albany NY 12222.(gsapp@csc.albany.edu;
phone (518) 437-3951;
fax (518) 437-3952)

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Gregg Sapp, Head of the Science Library
State University of New York, Albany
1400 Washington Ave. Albany, NY 12222
gsapp@csc.albany.edu; (518) 437-3951

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