[Asis-l] Call for proposals on women in information science

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded by request.  Dick Hill]

Second announcement; please note deadline for proposals is October 7.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Libraries & the Cultural Record – Special issue on Women in Information
Science

Guest Editors:

Diane Barlow and Trudi Bellardo Hahn
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
dbarlow at umd.edu, thahn at umd.edu

ISSUE FOCUS:

This special issue will spotlight the lives and contributions of remarkable
women pioneers in information science. Papers may be about women whose field
of specialty and accomplishments fall in a wide variety of
areas—documentation, classification, standards, information retrieval,
library technologies, LIS education, social epistemology, information use,
information policy, STI, or other.  A paper may address a subject’s
leadership, innovation, advocacy, research, or other significant
contributions, and should place the subject historically in her social,
cultural, and professional context.  Further, bios should show the
relationship of her particular specialty to the larger discipline.

Possible subjects for bios are Jean Antes, Henrietta Avram, Marcia Bates,
Helen Brownson, Toni Carbo, Elfreda Chatman, Pauline Atherton Cochrane,
Diana Crane, Susan Crawford, Edith Ditmas, Margaret Egan, Madeline (Berry)
Henderson, Mary Herner, Karen Sparck-Jones, Barbara Kyle, Lotsee Patterson,
Phyllis Richmond, Jane Robbins, Claire Schultz, Jean Tague-Sutcliffe,
Winifred Sewell, and Martha Williams.  These individuals are named as
examples. We welcome papers on other women pioneers in information science
as well.

Please note: We will give first consideration to articles on women whose
careers have ended and whose total contributions and accomplishments can be
assessed.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please submit the name of the individual you wish to write on and a brief
outline of your paper by October 7, 2007.  Authors will be selected by
October 19. Submit full papers (4,000-8,000 words) by March 15, 2008. 
Authors will receive reviews by May 1.  Final papers will be due by June 15,
2008.  

Anticipated publication: spring 2009

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Libraries & the Cultural Record (formerly Libraries & Culture) is an
interdisciplinary journal that explores the significance of collections of
recorded knowledge—their creation, organization, preservation, and
utilization—in the context of cultural and social history.

Trudi Bellardo Hahn
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
thahn at umd.edu
301-405-2047