Title:<\/strong>\u00a0School Libraries Worldwide<\/em><\/p>\n ISSN<\/strong>:\u00a01023-9391<\/p>\n Website:<\/strong>\u00a0School Libraries Worldwide<\/em>\u00a0| About the Journal<\/a><\/p>\n Purpose, objective, or mission:<\/strong>\u00a0The official research journal of the International Association of School Librarianship,\u00a0School Libraries Worldwide<\/em>\u00a0publishes professional, current research and scholarship on all aspects of school librarianship.1<\/sup><\/p>\n Target audience:<\/strong>\u00a0Academic researchers and public school librarians worldwide.2<\/sup><\/p>\n Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0International Association of School Librarianship (IASL).3<\/sup><\/p>\n Peer reviewed?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n Type:<\/strong>\u00a0LIS scholarly journal.<\/p>\n Medium:<\/strong>\u00a0Online with an IASL subscription; some articles have public access.4<\/sup><\/p>\n Content:<\/strong>\u00a0School Libraries Worldwide<\/em>\u00a0publishes new scholarly works and current research on all aspects of school librarianship from around the world. Most issues include a theme section with an editorial and several articles.5<\/sup><\/p>\n Frequency of publication:<\/strong>\u00a0Two times per year, January and July.6<\/sup><\/p>\n Location of submission guidelines:<\/strong>\u00a0Submissions<\/a><\/p>\n Types of contributions accepted:<\/strong>\u00a0School Libraries Worldwide\u00a0<\/em>invites new scholarly works, including research reports and reviews of research, on any aspect of school librarianship. Issues usually include a theme section; theme editors will occasionally call for submissions of personal narrative, commentary, and opinion papers.7<\/sup><\/p>\n Submission and review process:<\/strong>\u00a0Manuscript are submitted to the online journal system, where authors can track their papers through the review process. \u201cThe average turnaround time to first decision is about 60 days, with an approximate acceptance rate of 50%.\u201d Submissions that are considered appropriate for the journal are blind reviewed by at least two members of the Editorial Board.8<\/sup><\/p>\n The current Call for Papers should be consulted to note the theme and content of the upcoming issues, but content on school librarianship in general is always accepted.9<\/sup><\/p>\n Editorial tone:<\/strong>\u00a0Professional and accessible, with an understanding of the worldwide audience.10<\/sup><\/p>\n Style guide used:<\/strong>\u00a0Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association<\/em>\u00a0(APA), 6th edition.11<\/sup><\/p>\n This is an ideal journal to submit different types of scholarship on school librarianship: practice, research study findings, reviews of studies, and personal experience (of the author or of students), in general or as the current theme allows. It is particularly fascinating to read accounts of triumphs and difficulties faced by those in school library positions in other countries and current information on programs, technologies, and practices that will be helpful in a variety of settings (rural, urban, university, grade school, etc.). Students are encouraged to submit work, and the open-access article per issue, one that covers a popular, engaging topic, is an exciting goal to reach for.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publication circulation:<\/strong>\u00a0Data not available.<\/p>\n Audience location and language or cultural considerations:<\/strong>\u00a0As the official journal of IASL,\u00a0School Libraries Worldwide\u00a0<\/em>is an English-language publication for an international audience.\u00a0The\u00a0submission guidelines firmly note that \u201cauthors need to be mindful of the international audience of the journal. In most cases, authors can use the library terminology that is used in their locale. However, when writing about schools and students, it is important to state the age of the students being educated in those schools.\u201d The guidelines indicate that authors should explain terminology used to identify schools: lycee, high school, compulsory school, etc.12<\/sup><\/p>\n Reader characteristics:<\/strong>\u00a0Readers of the journal are interested in school librarianship and emerging thoughts and trends in the field. This is a positive journal exploring best practices and techniques that can benefit anyone working or studying school librarianship. Members of IASL include people who are concerned about school library media programs and services \u2014 librarians, school library media specialists, educators, publishers, and lay people. IASL is a worldwide organization that, in addition to providing an international forum for discussing school librarianship issues, works with other professional associations to provide guidance and development for school library programs. The overall goal is creating effective programs: this is a very professional, respected, positive publication that strongly believes in its mission and uses the journal to spread the education.13<\/sup><\/p>\n Knowledge of LIS subject matter:<\/strong>\u00a0Strong, but as with the caution on explaining the age of students in the articles, authors should consider explaining any technical LIS jargon or regional terms.14<\/sup><\/p>\n Readers of this journal are interested in what you have to share concerning school librarianship. Articles range from international standards for school librarianship, to profiles of teacher librarians, to connecting teacher librarians and classrooms around the world. There is certain to be a topic that LIS students who are studying school librarianship will be able to research or write about for this publication of open, interested peers.<\/p>\n Last updated:<\/strong>\u00a0March 7, 2018<\/p>\n Publication analysis About the publication Title:\u00a0School Libraries Worldwide ISSN:\u00a01023-9391 Website:\u00a0School Libraries Worldwide\u00a0| About the Journal Purpose, objective, or mission:\u00a0The official research journal of the International Association of School Librarianship,\u00a0School Libraries Worldwide\u00a0publishes professional, current research and scholarship on all aspects of school librarianship.1 Target audience:\u00a0Academic researchers and public school librarians worldwide.2 Publisher:\u00a0International Association of School Librarianship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"parent":2013,"menu_order":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2234","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=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2234\/revisions\/3577"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the publication\u2019s submission guidelines<\/h3>\n
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