Call for Posts and Papers: Librarianship by Walking Around
September 14, 2011 in Uncategorized
The Library Society of the World is putting together an online and print-on-demand anthology of weblog posts, essays, articles, and other material entitled Librarianship by Walking Around, patterned after the successful Hacking the Academy project.
Librarianship doesn’t just happen in the library! Librarianship happens wherever information exchange happens—that is, just about everywhere. Librarianship by Walking Around celebrates librarians who leave their libraries and their comfort zones to ply the library trade.
Submit your work or suggest another’s by commenting here, tweeting the link with the hashtag #libwalk, or posting to the Library Society of the World’s FriendFeed group by Friday, October 21. Themes may include (but are not limited to):
- Serendipitous encounters (and how to engineer them)
- Joining patron communities
- Walking around online
- Walking around non-library literature and non-library conferences
- Embedded librarianship (in all its forms)
All on-topic submissions will appear on the project’s web page. The LSW will select from these for the anthology, expected to be available in free .epub and low-cost print-on-demand versions. All authors whose pieces are chosen for the anthology will be asked to license the piece as CC-BY. Authors unwilling to do so will not appear in the anthology.
Walk around the information world with us!
Steve Matthews said on September 22, 2011
Virtual “walking around” is supported extremely well by Scoop.It.
hedgielib said on October 21, 2011
I would like to write up my experience as a partially embedded librarian in the Dental School at UIC. I hold office hours at the dental school and am one of the instructors for the Evidence Based Practice class for the first year students. This puts me in coordination with my co-instructors, curriculum developers, and other faculty who are working with the first year students. We’re working to expand this the second year students in the spring.