[Asis-l] Special issue on Women in Information Science

[Trudi Bellardo Hahn]

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, 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.

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

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Libraries & the Cultural Record 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, unlimited as to time and place.  It is the only
journal that covers the broad history of the related disciplines and
professions of the emerging Information Domain.  For more information, see:
www.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr.


Trudi Bellardo Hahn, MSLS, Ph.D.
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
4117F Hornbake Building South
College Park, MD   20742
(301) 405-2047
thahn at umd.edu