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Dear all and with apologies for cross posting: LIBRARY TRENDS International Journal of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue Information literacy beyond the academy: towards policy formulation Edited by Dr. John Crawford, Glasgow Caledonian University Information literacy has not been chosen as a subject for an issue of Library trends since 1991 vol. 39 (3) Winter 1991: Toward Information Literacy -- Innovative Perspectives for the 1990s<http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/7723> http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/5379/browse?type=dateissued The issue was heavily focused on the Higher education sector. Since then research, development and practitioner activity has moved on and activity and research and development work around information literacy also takes place in career choice and management, employability training, skills development, workplace decision making, adult literacies training and community learning and development, public libraries, school and further education, lifelong learning and health and media literacies. Information literacy has matured sufficiently to have become a national and international policy issue as evidenced by President Obama's proclamation http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/2009literacy_prc_rel.pdf and such international statements as the Prague Declaration of 2003. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19636&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html The planned issue which will contain 8-10 papers will celebrate this broadening of the agenda by calling for papers on the above subject areas and also those focusing on national and international policy making. Papers submitted must reflect on the wider policy implications of their content and suggest how findings can be more widely applied. Individual case studies and exemplars of good practice without a wider context will not be appropriate. While papers on the HE sector will be welcomed they must focus on information literacy training and activity in a wider or cross sectoral context such as employability training or working with other education sectors such as schools or colleges or the workplace and other non-educational environments. Papers are invited from all information sectors and academia. Proposals of no more than 300 words to be sent by 15 January 2010 to: John Crawford at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> In framing proposals intending authors may wish to be view author guidelines on the journal website at http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/guidelines.html Decisions will be communicated to contributors no later than 26 February 2010. Deliver date of manuscripts: 30 November 2010. Each article will be in the range 3,000-10,000 words. All copyright permissions must be obtained by the author. Proof of permission must be sent at the same time that the manuscript is submitted. Articles will be published in Volume 60:1 Summer/August 2011. Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474 Times Higher Education award winner 2008: outstanding international student support http://www.gcal.ac.uk/news/pressoffice/releases/241008.html please consider the environment - do you really need to print this email? ###################################################################### This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is confidential and may well also be legally privileged from disclosure. It is only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed.If you have received this e-mail message in error, please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. Please note that the opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the official opinion or position of the College. Please notify us immediately of the error by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your systems. Thank you for your help in preserving the security of our documents. This email was scanned and cleared by MailMarshal. ######################################################################