CALL FOR PROPOSALS

College & Undergraduate Libraries presents

"Agility by Design: New Roles for Academic
     Libraries on Campus and Beyond"

College & Undergraduate Libraries, a
peer-reviewed Taylor and Francis
publication, invites proposals for
articles to be published in a special
issue focusing on emerging and perhaps
unconventional roles of the academic
library, both on campus and beyond. The
growing intensity of users’ modern-day
information needs coupled with an
information technology landscape that is
open and ever-changing, is facilitating
administrative, organizational and
programmatic changes within many academic
libraries. In many cases, this is best
illustrated by staff with new or unusual
qualifications, backgrounds, or position
descriptions; cutting edge services that
are out of the mainstream; traditional
services offered in innovative ways; new
staffing configurations; new
collaborations both on and off campus; and
new roles on campus.

Would you describe your library as having
any of these features? If so, then you may
have an article to contribute to College &
Undergraduate Libraries.

The special issue will be edited by
Scottie Cochrane from Denison University
(cochrane@denison.edu) and Valeda F. Dent
of Rutgers University (vdent@rutgers.edu).

In their pieces, authors should focus
solely on those aspects that might be
defined as unconventional or
nontraditional in any area of library
operations, programs, services, or
administration. Authors are invited to
submit articles/proposals for pieces such
as:

1.       theoretical, philosophical, or
ideological discussions of the transition
from traditional library roles, services,
practices and organizational structures,
to the more nontraditional/unconventional

2.      opinion or position papers

3.      case studies

4.      collaboration or relationships
between librarians and other campus
partners

5.      collaboration or relationships
between librarians and off-campus partners

6.      research studies dealing with the
impact of nontraditional/unconventional
roles, services, practices or
organizational structures

7.      annotated reviews of the
literature.

We welcome proposals from librarians and
campus and off-campus collaborators,
individually and as teams. The proposal
should consist of an abstract of 500 words
together with all author contact
information. Articles should run at least
20 double-spaced pages in length.

For additional information, please contact
either editor. Please submit proposals to
Scottie Cochrane or Valeda Dent by August
18, 2008. Selected proposals will be
announced September 5, 2008, and first
drafts of accepted proposals will be due
by December 5, 2008.

Scottie
Cochrane
Valeda F. Dent