Call for Submissions: Collection Management issue on Children's Literature

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 Collection Management will be publishing a special issue of the journal dedicated to “Children’s and Young Adult Literature Collections in  Academic Libraries” with guest editor Elaine Hirsch, Associate Director of Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College.
If you are an academic librarian  developing and managing a Children’s Literature collection, we would like to hear from you.
Literature for children and youth is often seen as the responsibility of public or school libraries.  However besides the use by teacher education students, materials designed for children are important to the fields of child development, family counseling, library science, and language and literature.  All these students and researchers need access to collections of historic and contemporary literature and secondary sources that are not available at most public libraries.
A wide variety of topics and perspectives are invited for consideration in this special issue, including

  *   Building and promoting children’s and young adult e-book and digital collections,
  *   Collection policies and approval plans,
  *   Collection promotion and use by students, researchers and other readers, and
  *   Diversifying and globalizing collections,
  *   Location and classification of collections,
  *   Rare books and special collections.
Questions to think about might include:

  *   What is the role of academic libraries in building children’s and young adult literature collections?
  *   What do children’s and young adult collections look like in twenty first century academic libraries?
  *   How do these collections support understanding of equity, diversity, and inclusion?
  *   How are the collections developed and organized?
  *   How are they integrated into the curriculum, and used by students, researchers, and other readers?
  *   How will libraries preserve the historic content for future researchers?   What does the future of collection development in this area look like, and how do we support courses dependent on literature for youth in an online educational environment, such as during COVID?
We are soliciting peer-reviewed articles, commentaries and case studies for a special issue of Collection Management to be published in 2021 on “Children’s and Young Adult Literature Collections in Academic Libraries”  Please submit an abstract (200-500 words) by Aug 3, 2020 to elaineghirsch_at_lclark.edu<mailto:elaineghirsch_at_lclark.edu> ,  jnixon_at_purdue.edu<mailto:jnixon_at_purdue.edu>  and sclement_at_unm.edu<mailto:sclement_at_unm.edu> that describes a topic to explore and outlines how you will approach it.  Please Indicate whether you are interested in writing a commentary, peer-reviewed article or a case study.  We will email all authors the week of August 17th, 2020 with the invitation to submit  a paper for review.  Papers will be due by October 30, 2020.
Susanne Clement and Judith Nixon
Co-editors, Collection Management
Susanne Clement
Associate Professor and Director of Collections
University of New Mexico Libraries
sclement_at_unm.edu<mailto:sclement_at_unm.edu>