Title<\/strong>:\u00a0The Political Librarian<\/em><\/p>\n ISSN<\/strong>:\u00a02471-3155<\/p>\n Website:<\/strong> About The Political Librarian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Purpose, objective, or mission:<\/strong>\u00a0The Political Librarian<\/em>\u00a0\u201cis dedicated to expanding the discussion of, promoting research on, and helping to re-envision locally focused advocacy, policy, and funding issues for libraries.\u201d1<\/sup><\/p>\n Target audience:<\/strong>\u00a0Library and information science (LIS) professionals, scholars, practitioners, and graduate students, as well as those outside of the LIS discipline, who are interested libraries and tax and public policy.<\/p>\n Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0The Political Librarian<\/em>\u00a0is organized and published by\u00a0EveryLibrary.2<\/sup>\u00a0It is hosted by the Washington University in St. Louis Open Scholarship site.3<\/sup><\/p>\n Peer reviewed?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes. Not all articles are peer reviewed, but there is a section in most issues for those that are.<\/p>\n Type:<\/strong>\u00a0LIS scholarly journal.<\/p>\n Medium:<\/strong>\u00a0Online, open access.<\/p>\n Content:<\/strong>The Political Librarian<\/i>\u00a0publishes peer-reviewed articles, white papers, and editorials that focus on how funding issues, tax implications, budgeting, and broader economic policy affect libraries on the local level.4<\/sup>\u00a0Articles range from focused examinations, such as library budgeting strategies, to broader issues, such as tax reform and trickle-down economics.5<\/sup>\u00a0The journal is \u201cat the intersection of local libraries, public policy and tax policy.\u201d6<\/sup><\/p>\n Frequency of publication:<\/strong>\u00a0Two volumes each year.<\/p>\n Location of submission guidelines:<\/strong> Submissions<\/a>, Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines<\/a>, and\u00a0Editorial Team and Guidelines for The Political Librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n Types of contributions accepted:<\/strong>\u00a0The Political Librarian<\/i>\u00a0publishes opinions\/first drafts, white papers, and peer-reviewed articles. The journal seeks a variety of perspectives, new voices, and lines of inquiry, and does not limit \u201ccontributors to just those working in the field of library and information science.\u201d The journal invites \u201csubmissions from researchers, practitioners, community members, or others dedicated to furthering the discussion, promoting research, and helping to re-envision tax policy and public policy on the extremely local level.\u201d7<\/sup><\/p>\n Submission and review process:<\/strong>\u00a0Authors submit manuscripts though the journal\u2019s online portal. Initial submissions do not have strict guidelines to follow.8<\/sup>\u00a0However, accepted manuscripts need to follow the Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines.9<\/sup><\/p>\n Editorial tone:<\/strong>\u00a0The tone is professional. Clear guidelines are provided by the editorial team.10<\/sup><\/p>\n Style guide used:<\/strong>\u00a0The journal\u2019s reference and citation style is explained in the Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines.11<\/sup><\/p>\n The Political Librarian<\/i>\u00a0is a new journal (first published in 2015) that has a very particular focus: it is a \u201cdedicated space where practitioners, researchers, and users [can] publish on frontline advocacy experiences, campaign strategy and research, and\/or about tax and public policies impacting libraries on the local level.\u201d The journal is a resource for examinations of the impact of tax and public policy locally and how policy affects library services and community outcomes and for new models of library funding and resources to educate stakeholders.12<\/sup>\u00a0LIS authors\u2013professionals, practitioners, scholars, and graduate students\u2013who write about the intersection of libraries with tax and public policy will find a good fit with this journal.<\/p>\n Publication circulation:<\/strong>\u00a0Data are not available, but the number of downloads appears on each article\u2019s title page.<\/p>\n Audience location and language or cultural considerations:<\/strong>\u00a0The Political Librarian<\/i>\u00a0is written in English. The audience is mostly located in the United States, as US tax and public policy are primarily discussed.<\/p>\n Reader characteristics:<\/strong>\u00a0Readers are LIS professionals, practitioners, scholars, and graduate students, as well as those outside the LIS community, who are interested in how tax and public policy affects libraries.<\/p>\n Knowledge of LIS subject matter:<\/strong>\u00a0Readers will have a strong academic and practical understand of LIS subject matter, but there may be readers outside of the discipline for whom jargon or idiosyncratic terms should be explained.<\/p>\n Authors should understand that readers have a particular interest in libraries and in public and tax policy, and they look for articles that both explain how libraries can survive and thrive in the current environment and how to advocate now for positive changes in the future. Readers also look for local analyses and examinations that may have implications on a broader scale.<\/p>\n Last updated:<\/strong>\u00a0April 24, 2018<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publication analysis About the publication Title:\u00a0The Political Librarian ISSN:\u00a02471-3155 Website: About The Political Librarian Purpose, objective, or mission:\u00a0The Political Librarian\u00a0\u201cis dedicated to expanding the discussion of, promoting research on, and helping to re-envision locally focused advocacy, policy, and funding issues for libraries.\u201d1 Target audience:\u00a0Library and information science (LIS) professionals, scholars, practitioners, and graduate students, as […]<\/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-2264","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2264","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=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2264\/revisions\/3592"}],"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=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the publication\u2019s submission guidelines<\/h3>\n
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