“Only connect ...” discovery pathways, library
explorations, and the information adventure.
A collection of information discovery journeys.
Andrew Walsh & Emma
Coonan
A call for chapter
submissions for an anarcho-narrative book about
Information Discovery Journeys.
Full
details on
http://innovativelibraries.org.uk/onlyconnect/
Learning is about creating
relationships between entities and establishing a narrative
that makes sense of the world
Research is about juxtaposing
entities that were previously unrelated
The book will
consist of a series of narratives connected by the over
arching theme of information discovery journeys. The authors
of the individual chapters are free to decide the most
appropriate structure to tell these stories about
information discovery, whether that is traditional textual
formats, more free form text (e.g. transcripts of social
media interactions; poetry; illustrative fictional prose),
through images, video, or whatever media seems appropriate
to the author.
The text will
be electronic by default, available freely under CC license
(see
note
below). Print on demand versions will be made available if
deemed appropriate when editing the finished text.
Contributors
will be selected by the editors after submitting a proposal
to the call for papers. Final submissions will be subject to
the lightest possible editing, in conjunction with the
author, to insure the integrity of the original submission
is maintained.
Please send a
title and short description (around 200 words) of the
chapter you propose to the editors at:
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Include the
topics you would cover, the structure your chapter would
take and any special format or structure your contribution
would require. We'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Timescales:
Call for
Papers ends 1st March
First Drafts
due 1st June
Book published
Autumn 2013
Bypassing established publisher
routes means that our ‘unbook’ can be:
·
Creative Commons licensed, giving
contributors recognition and making the material immediately
free and sharable online
·
Multimedia - contributors pick their
preferred format: prose, video, images, Storify’d tweets,
graphs, data ... (print-on-demand an option for textual parts,
linking to additional non-textual material via an app such as
Aurasma. Details of this to be confirmed at a later date.)
·
Free of the writing conventions
imposed by traditional publishers - contributors can retain
their own voice, choose the length of their contribution, use
whatever format they prefer
Note on licencing: We will ask authors / contributors
to sign a simple agreement to allow us rights to publish
their contribution and to permit others to use the contents
of the book under
CC licence. Contributors will retain copyright over
their work.
Thanks,
Andrew
Andrew Walsh MSc MCLIP FHEA
Academic
Librarian, University Teaching Fellow, National Teaching
Fellow
Music,
Humanities, Media, Education and Professional
Development.
Information
Literacy Practitioner of the Year, 2012