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From: "Christine Pawley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 5:23 PM
Subject: CFP: Special Issue of The Library Quarterly
> Call for Papers: A Special Issue of The Library Quarterly
>
> "The Library in the Life of the Reader"
>
>
> The study of historical and cultural aspects of readers and reading
> is a new but fast-growing area that overlaps with the history of the
> book and of print culture, and draws on the theories and
> methodologies of history, literary criticism, cultural studies, and
> sociology. Scholars with research and teaching interests in readers
> and reading can also be found in American Studies, Education,
> Journalism and Communication Studies, and Library and Information
> Studies. But reading researchers (no matter what their disciplinary
> heritage) have tended to overlook libraries as subject for study,
> thereby missing an important context in which reading commonly takes
> place. At the same time, most scholarship in the cultural and
> historical aspects of libraries has focused on libraries as
> institutions, or on the lives and contributions of individual library
> leaders. By contrast, little attention has been paid to groups and
> individuals who actually make use of libraries. Most research into
> libraries that does take readers as its focus has concentrated on the
> "reader in the life of the library"--that is, from "within" the
> library--rather than the "library in the life of the reader." By
> contrast, taking a view from the "outside in," we are interested in
> research that explores the ways in which contemporary and
> historically situated groups and individuals encounter public,
> academic, school, special, private and other types of libraries.
>
> We anticipate examples of reader groups to be distinguished by their
> occupancy of a particular time period (including the present) as well
> as social, cultural and geographic place. They might include, for
> example, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, religious
> organizations, children, rural residents, interest group members or
> the GLBT community.
>
> DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: MARCH 1, 2005.
>
> Submissions should conform to style conventions found in The Library
> Quarterly (see http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/LQ/instruct.html),
> not exceed 6,000 words (excluding endnotes), and be accompanied by a
> 100-word abstract. We encourage mailed submissions as an attachment
> in Word or pdf format.
>
> Submit inquiries or one copy of the manuscript to:
>
> Christine Pawley
> Associate Professor
> School of Library and Information Science
> The University of Iowa
> 3074 Main Library
> Iowa City, IA, 52242-1420
>
> phone: (319) 335-5711
> fax: (319) 335-5374
> email: [log in to unmask]
>
>
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>
> Christine Pawley Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> School of Library and Information Science
> The University of Iowa Center for the Book
>
> The University of Iowa
> 3074 Main Library
> Iowa City, IA, 52242-1420
>
> phone: (319) 335-5711
> fax: (319) 335-5374
> email: [log in to unmask]
> http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/~pawley/
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