Title:<\/strong>\u00a0The Journal of Creative Library Practice<\/em><\/p>\n ISSN<\/strong>: 2330-42271<\/sup><\/p>\n Website:<\/strong>\u00a0The Journal of Creative Library Practice<\/em> | Home<\/a><\/p>\n Purpose, objective, or mission:<\/strong> From the website\u2019s About page: \u201cThe Journal of Creative Library Practice\u00a0<\/em>provides an outlet for librarians and information professionals to describe and encourage greater creativity in library and information center communications, policies, collections, instruction, and other areas of librarianship.\u201d2<\/sup><\/p>\n Target audience:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThis journal reaches librarians and information professionals of all types, including academic, public, school, special, medical, legal, and others.\u201d The journal is working to broaden its readership to individuals outside the profession, to anyone interested in creative solutions to LIS issues; or anyone who wants to participate in discussions about creative issues and solutions.3<\/sup><\/p>\n Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Published as an online blog-format journal by Creative Library Practice4<\/sup><\/p>\n Peer reviewed?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes,5<\/sup>\u00a0though this blog-style journal also publishes\u00a0non-peer reviewed content. The refereed articles are distinguished from the blog posts on the site.6<\/sup><\/p>\n Type:<\/strong>\u00a0LIS scholarly and professional7<\/sup><\/p>\n Medium:<\/strong>\u00a0Online,8<\/sup>\u00a0peer-reviewed\u00a0blogposts9<\/sup><\/p>\n Content:<\/strong>\u00a0Posts on creative solutions to LIS issues.10<\/sup><\/p>\n Frequency of publication:<\/strong>\u00a0This online journal is\u00a0updated as frequently as the editors write posts and peer-reviewed articles are accepted.11<\/sup><\/p>\n Location of submission guidelines:<\/strong>\u00a0Instructions for authors<\/a><\/p>\n Types of contributions accepted:<\/strong>\u00a0Any article focusing on creative solutions to LIS issues, including communications barriers, technology issues, reviews of relevant books or websites.12<\/sup><\/p>\n Submission and review process:<\/strong>\u00a0The website provides a link to email manuscripts in MS-Word .doc, .docx, or RTF format.13<\/sup><\/p>\n Editorial tone:<\/strong>\u00a0Editor Joseph Kraus, in a Q&A with\u00a0Library Journal,<\/em> stated, \u201cWe want to encourage prospective authors to write with less formal rhetoric.\u201d14<\/sup><\/p>\n Style guide used:<\/strong>\u00a0References should be provided in a consistent format, whether Chicago, Turabian, MLA, or APA, or author may simply provide links to cited material.15<\/sup><\/p>\n The journal\u2019s\u00a0editors consider\u00a0the publication to be an open source alternative to the stodgy print publications usually favored by the LIS community. They are a creative group open to all sorts of submissions, so this would be a great place to expand on an LIS student paper or thesis, or write about a\u00a0creative approach\u00a0tried at a\u00a0library-related job, and how it helped the organization.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publication circulation:<\/strong>\u00a0Statistics are not available, but as this journal is also an informal blog there is potential\u00a0to reach a large audience.<\/p>\n Audience location and language or cultural considerations:<\/strong>\u00a0The journal is online and the editors are LIS professionals at colleges and universities around the United States.16<\/sup>\u00a0The journal is written in American English.17<\/sup><\/p>\n Reader characteristics:<\/strong>\u00a0This journal appeals to\u00a0forward thinking, creative, multidisciplined, against-the-grain LIS professionals seeking to share information with like-minded peers. The journal is written for and by LIS professionals in all possible settings, including academic, public, school, special, medical, and law\u00a0libraries. It also aims to reach those readers who are interested in libraries but not necessarily working in them, including teachers, parents, students, and businesses.18<\/sup><\/p>\n The journal was created by LIS professionals who wish\u00a0to have a truly open access information sharing site that features creative solutions to common problems in information organizations. This is an open minded, nontraditional group that sees the value in current technologies and is working\u00a0to take advantage of anything that\u00a0can help the library community achieve its goals. The journal leans toward the informal, so potential authors should keep this\u00a0in mind while writing for the publication. The goal is to provide articles from a variety of\u00a0perspectives.19<\/sup><\/p>\n Knowledge of LIS subject matter:<\/strong>\u00a0The knowledge level is probably quite high, but as the editors\u00a0are attempting to appeal to laypeople as well as LIS students and professionals, potential authors\u00a0should keep the jargon to a minimum and avoid highly technical terms and unusual\u00a0acronyms.20<\/sup><\/p>\n The Journal of Creative Library Practice<\/em>\u00a0is part of a new LIS journal standard: using open access for peer-reviewed articles under Creative Commons licensing, and providing relatively loose guidelines in terms of content, and even citations.<\/p>\n Last updated:<\/strong>\u00a0May 14, 2017<\/p>\n Publication analysis About the publication Title:\u00a0The Journal of Creative Library Practice ISSN: 2330-42271 Website:\u00a0The Journal of Creative Library Practice | Home Purpose, objective, or mission: From the website\u2019s About page: \u201cThe Journal of Creative Library Practice\u00a0provides an outlet for librarians and information professionals to describe and encourage greater creativity in library and information center communications, […]<\/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-2256","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2256","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=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2256\/revisions\/3587"}],"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=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the publication\u2019s submission guidelines<\/h3>\n
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