Call for Articles (Against the Grain)

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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006
From: Pam Rebarcak (Western Michigan Univ.) <pam.rebarcak_at_wmich.edu>
Subject: Call for Articles


Call for Articles

For the February 2007 issue of Against the Grain, the guest editors 
invite submissions examining metadata and its impact on the work of 
collections and technical services librarians. 

Possible article topics include:

- Case studies of large or small digitization initiatives: How was a 
project carried out?  What made it successful?  What problems arose?  
How was the work incorporated into the day-to-day operations?  In 
retrospect, what could have been done differently?

- Post-selection decisions:  How do metadata specialists, working 
with collection "owners" and/or subject scholars, determine optimum 
schemas?  How do they collaborate with different units within the 
library or with communities of practice (museums, archives and 
libraries) and discipline cultures?

- Interoperability:  What aspects of shareability of collections are 
important? How do you assure cross-collection interoperability now and 
into the future?

- Preservation:  What needs to be collected from the first scan?  Are 
their ways to extract technical metadata easily?  Where do you store 
the preservation metadata?  What standard do you use to store metadata 
and where?

- User perspectives:  Have user needs been assessed? What are the 
reactions of patrons / the public to digitized projects?  Are there 
feedback mechanisms, and what has been reported?  Do you use any 
aspects of "Library 2.0"?

Articles on other aspects of metadata are also welcome.

Against the Grain is a partially refereed publication, and articles 
are usually 2000 -- 2500 words in length.  Article proposals and / or
abstracts of articles should be submitted by Friday, September 23, 
2006.  The deadline for submission of the articles themselves is Friday,
November 11, 2006.  If you are interested in submitting an article, 
please let me know by return email. (pam.rebarcak_at_wmich.edu or 
sheila.bair_at_wmich.edu)

Should you desire more information or have questions, please do not
hesitate to contact the guest editors listed below.

Thank you,

Pam Rebarcak 
Head Technical Services Department
Western Michigan University Libraries
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
269.387.5166

Or 

Sheila Bair
Metadata Cataloger
Western Michigan University Libraries
Kalamazoo, MI 49009



Pamela Rebarcak, MLS, MPA
Head, Technical Services
University Libraries
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5353
o: 269.387.5166
f: 269.387.5193
pam.rebarcak_at_wmich.edu
www.wmich.edu/library


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