School Libraries Worldwide

Current Call for Papers

School Libraries Worldwide is the official professional and research journal of the International Association of School Librarianship. It is published twice yearly, in January and July.

Issues for the Next Decade
July 2010 (Volume 16, Number 2)
Editor: Dianne Oberg

This issue of School Libraries Worldwide will be an open or non-theme issue, focusing on current research from around the world pertaining to aspects of school library practice, such as (but not limited to):

  • Collection development and assessment
  • Services to particular clientele (e.g., administrators, parents, teachers, students)
  • Development of instructional programs
  • Education of school library personnel, including in-service programs
  • Assessment of learning outcomes of library programs
  • Use of technology in school libraries

School library researchers are invited to submit papers reporting their own original research. School library educators are invited to encourage their graduate students to submit papers, based on their course work or research work. Colleagues fluent in a language other than English are invited to identify an excellent paper written in that language and to help the author get it translated into English for submission to the journal. This open issue provides opportunities for a wide range of contributions from around the world.

Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2010.
Authors interested in contributing to this issue should contact Dianne Oberg.

Submissions and suggestions for the journal should be sent to:
Dr. Dianne Oberg, Editor
School Libraries Worldwide
Department of Elementary Education
551 Education South, University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2G5
Fax: 1 (780) 492-7622
E-mail: Dianne Oberg.

Guidelines for Contributors are available from the Editor. Guidelines for Contributors also available on the IASL website.

Last updated 10 October 2009 (KSB)