You are invited to contribute a chapter to a forthcoming book entitled Global Action on School Library Guidelines. The book will be co-edited by Dr. Barbara Schultz-Jones, from the University of North Texas in the USA, and Dr. Dianne Oberg, from the University of Alberta in Canada, and published in June 2015 by IFLA and deGruyter Saur. The Joint Committee of IASL and IFLA School Libraries will serve as the advisory committee for the project.The focus of the book will be the ways in which members of the school library community worldwide have developed, revised, promoted, and implemented school library guidelines in their country or their province/state/county or their local school district/administrative unit. There will be a chapter about the international IFLA/UNESCO School Library Guidelines as well.
Each chapter will describe, in 3000-4000 words, a specific case of action related to school library guidelines. The description or “case study” will include: a description of the action and its aims or objectives; the context of the action; strategies and resources used to carry out the action; outcomes; assessment and evaluation; and contact/s for further information. These case studies are intended to serve as a guide or an inspiration for others facing similar challenges.
Examples of topics about which you may wish to write include, but are not limited to, the following:
-Developing national school library standards and/or guidelines
-Efforts to implement new school library standards and/or guidelines
-Transitioning a school library to a learning commons
-Changing school and/or school library culture or expectations to align with guidelines
Here is the planned timetable for the project:
15 September 2014: Submission of proposals for chapters
01 October 2014: Notification of acceptance of proposals
15 November 2014: Submission of full chapters
08 December 2014: Feedback to authors and requests for revisions
15 January 2015: Submission of the revised final chapters
31 January 2015: Submission of final copy of the entire book to the publisher
Contact [email protected] for submission template.