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Dear Colleagues,
Dave Penniman and I, co-editors of /Advances in Librarianship,/ and
would like to receive chapter proposals for volume 36, to be published
in 2013 on the theme of ***Mergers, Alliances, Collaborations, and
Partnerships.*
While corporate mergers make headlines, similar efforts in library and
information
science are less vociferously touted. They are occurring, however,
amongst libraries, degree programs, and enterprises such as networks and
consortia. Public libraries partner with community groups in order to
strengthen the political clout of both. They are occurring as
governments mandate consolidation of operations amongst agencies under
their purview in order to reduce or curtail expenditures. Academic
libraries are partnering with other internal units such as writing
centers and externally with agencies such as research laboratories. They
are also collaborating with peer institutions to develop resources in
developing collections instead of competing and duplicating materials in
their collections. North America has experienced increasing numbers of
public library and museum collaborations as well as public library and
school media centers partnerships. Regional networks have consolidated
operations and become larger entities. This volume of Advances in
Librarianship seeks to provide a comprehensive review of the factors
that lead to mergers and other alliances, the methods used to ensure
effective and successful collaborations, and descriptions of the factors
which contributed to less successful efforts at consolidation. Original
research, case studies, literature reviews and conceptual papers are
sought as chapters for this volume.
Topics of interest for proposed chapters can include, but are not
limited to, the following:
. Structural and operational mergers such as technical services and
collection management in two or more library and information science
environments;
. The impact and benefits of expanding electronic tools such as social
networks, and shared digital spaces such as Dropbox and Google Docs on
blended or joint initiatives;
. Experiences in higher education with combining programs and other
educational experiences for students and faculty across disciplines and
spanning two or more institutions;
. The fiscal results of mergers and multi-institutional operations
amongst groups of libraries of all kinds;
. Policy, work reallocation and structural changes within merging
operations;
. Research about corporate experiences and the lessons or guidance they
can provide for the not for profit sector;
. Changes in workflow and organizational structures and other behavioral
issues arising in merged organizations;
. The lessons, successes and failures in creating teams across
previously separate organizations;
. Human resource implications and impact on unions in settings that have
joint or merged services and operations;
. Studies of the factors that stimulated formation of merged entities,
alliances amongst diverse groups/entities.
Proposals can be in the form of an abstract or an outline.
Please submit chapter proposals to the Editors at
*awoodsworth_at_emeraldinsight.com*
<mailto:awoodsworth_at_emeraldinsight.com> or alwoods10_at_gmail.com
<mailto:alwoods10_at_gmail.com> and *dpenniman_at_emeraldinsight.com
<mailto:dpenniman_at_emeraldinsight.com> *ordave_penniman_at_yahoo.com
<mailto:dave_penniman_at_yahoo.com>
Questions and comments should be submitted via e-mail to us.
Many thanks,
Anne Woodswoth, Co- Editor
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Received on Tue Jan 31 2012 - 03:01:47 EST