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Updated Call for Chapter Abstracts: Organization, Representation, and
Description through the Digital Age
Call for chapter abstracts for the forthcoming De Gruyter Saur book
Organization, Representation, and Description through the Digital Age:
Information in Libraries, Archives and Museums to be edited by Caroline Fuchs
and Christine Angel. The editors invite a submission of 500-word abstracts
proposing a chapter for this edited volume. Abstract due by April 3, 2015.
Submission Dates and Timeline:
- April 4, 2016: 500-word chapter abstract due
- April 18, 2016: Notification of proposal acceptance from editors
- June 6, 2016: Full chapter manuscripts submitted to editors. Chapter
drafts should be approximately nine pages (4,500 – 5,000 words)
- July 18, 2016: Chapter authors receive feedback from editors
- August 15, 2016: Final revised chapters submitted to editors
The editors seek original scholarship on the metadata practices including the
organization, representation, and/or description of information objects within
the library, archive, and museum (LAM) environments. The frame of inquiry
includes all types of libraries, archives, museums, and other information
settings. Special consideration will be given to case studies that highlight
successes, challenges, best practices, and lessons learned.
Chapter topics and case studies of interest include (but are not limited to):
- The influence of technological developments on the way in which your
institution organizes, describes and represents information objects
- The ways in which your institution’s catalog/finding aid/inventory
practices have or have not changed in response to changes in technology
- The standards and data content used within your institution that govern
the way in which your institution organizes, describes, and represents
information objects
- The ways in which your institution’s internal structure has influenced
the organization, representation, and description of information objects
- The ways in which different/new media types have influenced your
institution’s metadata practices (i.e. still images, moving images, PDFs,
gaming systems, etc.)
- The ways in which financial constraints have influenced cataloging
practices at your institution
- The changing requirements for professional qualifications and skill
sets at your institution for the organization, representation, and description
of information objects
- Case studies of shared cataloging or other collaborative, consortial
endeavors within the shared online cataloging environment (a.k.a. the Web),
such as social networking
- Challenges, obstacles, and opportunities encountered at your
institution during the migration of cataloging (organizing, describing, and
representing information) from the analog to the digital environment
- Current or ongoing developments/projects concerning information
representation and retrieval of objects within the Web 3.0 environment
Please direct submissions and inquires to Caroline Fuchs, Associate Professor
at St. John’s University Libraries, New York (fu...@stjohns.edu) and Christine
Angel, Assistant Professor, Division of Library and Information Science at St.
John’s University, New York (ang...@stjohns.edu).
Christine M. Angel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Library & Information Science
St. John's University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Office Phone: 718.990.1452
Email: ang...@stjohns.edu
Web-X Room:
sju.webex.com/meet/angelc
Linked-In:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/1christineangel
ePortfolio:
https://stjohns.digication.com/christineangel
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