Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Progressive Librarian: A Journal for Critical Studies and Progressive Politics in Librarianship<\/em><\/p>\n ISSN<\/strong>: 1052-5726 (print), 1052-5722 (online)<\/p>\n Website:<\/strong>\u00a0PL<\/em> Home<\/a><\/p>\n Purpose, objective, or mission:<\/strong>\u00a0Progressive Librarian<\/em>\u00a0\u201cis a forum for critical perspectives in Library and Information Science (LIS), featuring articles, book reviews, bibliographies, reports, and documents that explore progressive perspectives on librarianship and information issues.\u201d1<\/sup><\/p>\n Target audience:<\/strong>\u00a0Librarians and LIS professionals interested in progressive \u201cdiscourse and action on library issues.\u201d Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG) members receive a subscription, or individuals can subscribe without joining the guild.2<\/sup><\/p>\n Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Progressive Librarians Guild.3<\/sup><\/p>\n Peer reviewed?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, by the editorial board.4<\/sup><\/p>\n Type:<\/strong>\u00a0LIS scholarly journal.<\/p>\n Medium:<\/strong>\u00a0Print and online.\u00a0Full text of complete issues and individual articles are available online.5<\/sup><\/p>\n Content:<\/strong>\u00a0Progressive Librarian\u00a0<\/em>publishes \u201carticles, book reviews, bibliographies, reports, and documents that explore progressive perspectives on librarianship and information issues.\u201d6<\/sup>\u00a0Articles cover topics such as sexual violence, social justice, sustainability, youth empowerment, intellectual freedom, international activism, and a wide variety of progressive critiques and analyses of\u00a0national and international LIS issues.<\/p>\n Frequency of publication:<\/strong>\u00a0 Two times a year.7<\/sup><\/p>\n Location of submission guidelines:<\/strong>\u00a0Submissions<\/a><\/p>\n Types of contributions accepted:<\/strong>\u00a0A Call for Papers for future issues of\u00a0Progressive Librarian<\/em>\u00a0asks for \u201carticles, book reviews, bibliographies, reports, documents, artwork and poetry that explore progressive perspectives on librarianship and information issues.\u201d8<\/sup><\/p>\n Submission and review process:<\/strong>\u00a0All manuscripts submitted to\u00a0Progressive Librarian<\/em>\u00a0are reviewed by each member of the editorial board. Manuscripts outside the expertise of board members are sent to outside reviewers for comment and evaluation. The journal also welcomes prints and digital images.\u00a0The editors reserve the right to edit all submissions before publication. For book reviews, please contact the book review editor.9<\/sup><\/p>\n Editorial tone:<\/strong>\u00a0The articles are innovative and present alternative views to those of other LIS publications. The style of writing is creative and individualistic while still being academic.<\/p>\n Style guide used:<\/strong>\u00a0Authors may use their preferred citation style \u201cfor in-text (parenthetical) citations, footnotes, and endnotes, as well as a bibliography (Chicago Manual of Style\u00a0&\u00a0Turabian), works cited (MLA), and references (APA\u00a0&\u00a0Harvard) sections.\u201d The citation style has to be used consistently throughout the manuscript.10<\/sup><\/p>\n Progressive Librarian\u00a0<\/em>is a innovative and welcoming journal for\u00a0LIS authors who write about any issue related to progressive librarianship or the relationship of library and information science to issues of social justice and responsibility. Articles are international in scope and are often focused on current events and actions. LIS professionals and students may submit artwork and poetry, as well as documents, reports, and bibliographies, on progressive issues.<\/p>\n Prospective authors should read the editorial in issue 45 for an understanding of the journal\u2019s philosophy and perspective,11<\/sup>\u00a0as well as the Progressive Librarians Guild Statement of Purpose.12<\/sup><\/p>\n For LIS graduate students, each year the PLG awards the\u00a0Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize \u201cfor the best paper about some aspect of the social responsibilities of librarians, libraries, or librarianship. Papers related to archivists, archives, and archival work are also eligible.\u201d The winning paper is published in an issue of\u00a0Progressive Librarian,<\/em>\u00a0and the winner receives a $500 stipend toward travel costs to the American Library Association\u2019s Annual Conference, where the award is presented.13<\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publication circulation:\u00a0<\/strong>Data not available.<\/p>\n Audience location and language or cultural considerations:<\/strong>\u00a0The journal as an international readership. Most subscribers are based in the United States, although there are a large number in Canada and others on every continent except for Antarctica.14<\/sup>\u00a0As with any scholarly writing, avoid colloquialisms and explain any regional or subject-specific terms.<\/p>\n Reader characteristics:<\/strong>\u00a0According to Elaine Harger, the managing editor, they encompass both genders and range widely in age.15<\/sup>\u00a0The readership is made up of librarians, librarian graduate students, and library school faculty working in public or academic libraries. Readers are likely interested in activism and the struggle for social justice and in how politics informs LIS practices.<\/p>\n Knowledge of LIS subject matter:<\/strong>\u00a0While readers are probably LIS students, professionals, or scholars, they may work in widely different areas within the profession. Assume readers have an understanding of broad LIS concepts. Readers probably know about news and events in the LIS world, and about national and international politics and current events, but explain any subject-specific jargon, issues, or events others may not be familiar with.<\/p>\n Broadly speaking, the readers of\u00a0Progressive Librarian<\/em>\u00a0are LIS professionals, scholars, and students who consider themselves socially and politically progressive and who bring their passion for social justice and action to their work in various library and information settings. PLG works against the current idea that \u201cthe library is merely a neutral institutional mediator in the information marketplace and a facilitator of a value-neutral information society of atomized information consumers.\u201d Rather,\u00a0 a \u201cprogressive librarianship demands the recognition of the idea that libraries for the people has been one of the principal anchors of an extended free public sphere which makes an independent democratic civil society possible, something which must be defended and extended.\u201d16<\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last updated:<\/strong>\u00a0February 27, 2018<\/p>\n Publication analysis About the publication Title:\u00a0Progressive Librarian: A Journal for Critical Studies and Progressive Politics in Librarianship ISSN: 1052-5726 (print), 1052-5722 (online) Website:\u00a0PL Home Purpose, objective, or mission:\u00a0Progressive Librarian\u00a0\u201cis a forum for critical perspectives in Library and Information Science (LIS), featuring articles, book reviews, bibliographies, reports, and documents that explore progressive perspectives on librarianship and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"parent":2954,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2224\/revisions\/3415"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the publication\u2019s submission guidelines<\/h3>\n
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