[Asis-l] Archival Science: Special Issue on Genre

[Gillian Oliver]

Apologies for cross postings

Genre in Theory, Practice and Research

Call for Papers: Archival Science 

Genre can be defined as a pattern of communication that conforms to community norms.  Genres are not fixed, but are constantly evolving and emerging. Examples of familiar genres range from speech utterances to publications, from text messages to databases, from blogs to formal reports.  Genre studies is a multi-disciplinary area, which has the potential to yield much of relevance to the archival community.

Accordingly, a special issue of Archival Science will be devoted to the theme of "Genre in Theory, Practice and Research", guest edited by Wendy Duff, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto wendy.duff at utoronto.ca and Gillian Oliver, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington Gillian.oliver at vuw.ac.nz .

Suggested topics for papers may include:
*	The role of genre in digital curation activities
*	The implicit and explicit meanings conveyed by genre
*	Use of genre in information retrieval
*	Genre as a tool in archival appraisal
*	Contribution of genre to arrangement and description
*	Finding aids from a genre perspective
*	Relationship of the concept of genre system to recordkeeping
*	Theorizing genre types and genre systems

Key Dates
Proposals for papers (500-1000 words) should be sent to the Guest Editors not later than 1 September 2011.  Authors will be notified by 30 September as to the status of their proposal.
 Submission Deadline for completed papers : December 1 2011

 Review Decisions will be made by: March 1 2012

Final Versions Due: May 1 2012

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions should be made online via the Editorial Manager   http://www.editorialmanager.com/arcs/

Dr Gillian Oliver 

Senior Lecturer, Archives & Records Management

School of Information Management

Victoria University of Wellington

PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand

http://www.sim.vuw.ac.nz/staff/gillian-oliver.aspx

Room RH 422 Phone (+ 64) (0)4 463 7437