School Libraries Worldwide
\nJanuary 2016 (Volume 22, Number 1)<\/p>\n
Celebrity: Teacher Librarians as Central Figures, Heroes, Key Players<\/p>\n
Call for Papers–Due October 1, 2015<\/p>\n
Editors: Marcia Mardis and Nancy Everhart
\nGuest Co-Editor: Rebecca Hunt<\/p>\n
School Libraries Worldwide is the official professional and research journal of the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL). 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.<\/p>\n
The January 2016 issue of School Libraries Worldwide will center on the theme of Celebrity: Teacher Librarians as Central Figures, Heroes, and Key Players. As Annenberg Fellow Neal Gabler wrote in his seminal 1994 essay Toward a New Definition of Celebrity[1], \u201cCelebrity is a learning process toward self-actualization and realization\u2026celebrity is about gaining attention and acknowledgment \u2014about not being like everyone else.\u201d (pp. 10, 13). For this issue, this definition is our point of departure in considering school librarians\u2019 many celebrity roles. We encourage papers that affirm, refute, or extend this notion.<\/p>\n
This issue will provide an opportunity for researchers to share their research relating to the librarian\u2019s role in school libraries. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, research about:
\n\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Leadership development and enactment;
\n\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Librarians as educational technology and social media leaders and\/or influencers;
\n\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Professional recruiting and retention strategies, i.e., \u201cselling\u201d teacher librarianship as a career;
\n\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Marketing and promoting the school library\u2019s programs and services;
\n\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Advocacy challenges and effective strategies;
\n\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Effective student, faculty, and\/or community programming facilitated by teacher librarians;
\n\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Librarians as agents of change and innovation;
\n\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Librarians as characters in history and fiction;
\n\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Celebrity and youth culture\/fandom; and
\n\u00b7 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Celebrity authored children\u2019s literature.<\/p>\n
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. \u00a0School Libraries Worldwide also welcomes submissions of excellent research on any topic relating to school librarianship for the open section of the journal.<\/p>\n
Deadline for submissions of full papers: October 1, 2015. Submission guidelines are available online at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.iasl-online.org\/pubs\/slw\/slw_guidecontrib.html<\/a> Dr. Marcia A. Mardis and Dr. Nancy Everhart
\nAuthors interested in contributing to this issue should contact the editors, Marcia Mardis and Nancy Everhart at\u00a0slw@cci.fsu.edu<\/a>\u00a0and the guest editor, Rebecca Hunt (rhunt@niu.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n
\nNote requirement that all submissions must take place through the online submission system:\u00a0http:\/\/slw.cci.fsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n
\nEditors, School Libraries Worldwide
\nSchool of Information
\nCollege of Communication & Information
\nFlorida State University
\nTallahassee FL 32306-2100 USA
\nE-mail:\u00a0slw@cci.fsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n