Title:<\/strong>\u00a0LISNews<\/em><\/p>\n ISSN<\/strong>:\u00a0N\/A<\/p>\n Website:<\/strong> LISNews<\/em> – News for Librarians<\/a><\/p>\n Purpose, objective, or mission:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cLISNews<\/em>\u00a0is a collaborative weblog devoted to current events and news in the world of library and information science.\u201d1<\/sup><\/p>\n Target audience:<\/strong>\u00a0LIS professionals and anyone interested in reading about library and information science news.2<\/sup><\/p>\n Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Blake Carver, MLS.3<\/sup><\/p>\n Peer reviewed?<\/strong>\u00a0No.4<\/sup><\/p>\n Type:<\/strong>\u00a0LIS professional news and forum.5<\/sup><\/p>\n Medium:<\/strong>\u00a0Online.6<\/sup><\/p>\n Content:<\/strong>\u00a0The content on\u00a0LISNews<\/em>\u00a0varies from day to day and includes newspaper articles from the United States and other English-speaking countries, editorials, interviews, book reviews, and original writings. Glancing at the most recent postings reveals excerpts and links from LIS-related articles in popular publications and organizations. Activity on the site has slowed down significantly in recent years, but new blog posts are added about once a week by the blog\u2019s owner. Some articles do not speak anyone\u2019s interest; other postings can generate heated, but civilized discussion for several days.7<\/sup><\/p>\n Frequency of publication:<\/strong>\u00a0According to the blog owner, content is updated \u201cfrequently, usually 7 days a week.\u201d8<\/sup>\u00a0However, recent activity suggests a pattern of updating slightly more than once per week.9<\/sup><\/p>\n Location of submission guidelines:<\/strong>\u00a0There are no guidelines as this is an informal forum for open discussion. The author attempts to maintain accuracy and fairness in postings and gently hints that others do the same.10<\/sup><\/p>\n Types of contributions accepted:<\/strong>\u00a0Articles, editorials, original work; anything of interest to a LIS audience.11<\/sup><\/p>\n Submission and review process:<\/strong>\u00a0Submissions can be sent to the \u201dsubmit suggestion\u201d link on the website. Contributions remain the property of the author and can be removed from the website any time by request. There is no review process other than the publication of that which interests a majority of readers. The author does caution that anything that \u201ccauses trouble\u201d will be deleted.12<\/sup><\/p>\n Editorial tone:<\/strong>\u00a0Informal blog that accepts any writings about LIS news. Authors are free to post and opine on the blog regarding any previously published works. The publisher does, however, \u201creserve the right to remove any work at any time for any reason.\u201d13<\/sup><\/p>\n Style guide used:<\/strong>\u00a0None.<\/p>\n LISNews<\/em>\u00a0does not provide any scholarly writing opportunities, but does offer an almost daily opportunity for new writers to post their work and ideas on any library topic. The blog offers a nice opportunity to get one\u2019s feet wet in the world of LIS writing but not much else. This may be good venue to find the pulse of library and information science news, to find out what others are talking about, what is of interest to other LIS professionals, and what LIS topics are making headlines in mainstream publications.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publication circulation:<\/strong>\u00a0There is no circulation information available. However, readership is not necessarily restricted to the activity on the site, as the blog is also be delivered via an email subscription list.14<\/sup><\/p>\n Audience location and language or cultural considerations:<\/strong>\u00a0The publisher is in New York, and it is claimed that there is some international reach.15<\/sup>\u00a0American English is the standard for communication as the focus is on North American information science and news. Newspaper articles posted here are from all over the country, Canada, and the UK.16<\/sup><\/p>\n Reader characteristics:<\/strong>\u00a0A majority of the readers are librarians of every specialty; however, the publisher does not ask any specific information. The readers are likely to have similar types of workplaces, as the majority of most recent posts focus on public or academic librarianship.17<\/sup>\u00a0Readers, as librarians, tend to be open to new information, are willing to express their opinion online, and listen to what others have to say. The editor will post anything of value related to library issues but will remove anything that causes too much discord.18<\/sup><\/p>\n Knowledge of LIS subject matter:<\/strong> Since this is an audience of mostly librarians (as determined by the editor),19<\/sup>\u00a0there is a great deal of LIS knowledge. Information is gathered from many sources for contributions to\u00a0LISNews<\/em>. Some posted articles are highly technical, while others are newspaper articles free of any jargon.20<\/sup><\/p>\n This is a resource for librarians to contribute information on anything related to library and information science from the conventional to the bizarre.21<\/sup>\u00a0Some articles are very technical and directed toward librarians with a specialization and a knowledge of library jargon and acronyms. Other articles are of a general nature that are of interest to not only librarians, but a general audience as well. Authors are welcome to contribute on any library related topic. Since there are few productive authors relative to prior years, there is opportunity for authors to stand out and be heard by posting frequently.\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0This is an informal and engaged audience of librarians that will be interested in anything that writers have to post.<\/p>\n Last updated:\u00a0<\/strong>June 29, 2019<\/p>\n Publication analysis About the publication Title:\u00a0LISNews ISSN:\u00a0N\/A Website: LISNews – News for Librarians Purpose, objective, or mission:\u00a0\u201cLISNews\u00a0is a collaborative weblog devoted to current events and news in the world of library and information science.\u201d1 Target audience:\u00a0LIS professionals and anyone interested in reading about library and information science news.2 Publisher:\u00a0Blake Carver, MLS.3 Peer reviewed?\u00a0No.4 Type:\u00a0LIS professional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"parent":2015,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2501","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2501","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=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2501\/revisions\/3277"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the publication\u2019s submission guidelines<\/h3>\n
Conclusion: Evaluation of publication\u2019s potential for LIS authors<\/h3>\n
Audience analysis<\/h2>\n
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Conclusion: Analysis of reader characteristics and their potential impact on authors<\/h3>\n
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