Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Governing: The Future of States and Localities<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n ISSN<\/strong>:\u00a0 1930-69541<\/sup><\/p>\n Website:<\/strong>\u00a0Governing<\/em> Homepage<\/a><\/p>\n Purpose, objective, or mission:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cGoverning: The Future of States and Localities<\/i>\u00a0takes on the question of what state and local government looks like in a world of rapidly advancing technology.\u00a0Governing<\/em>\u00a0is a resource for elected and appointed officials and other public leaders who are looking for smart insights and a forum to better understand and manage through this era of change.\u00a0Governing\u2019s<\/i> beat is the collision of technology and society and the fallout consequences, intended and unintended, that confront public leaders and increasingly influence their policy, legislation and strategies to govern.\u201d2<\/sup><\/p>\n Target audience:<\/strong>\u00a0Governing\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0audience consists of governors, mayors, county executives, city and county council members, state legislators, state and local agency executives and those holding key professional government positions.3<\/sup><\/p>\n Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0e.Republic, Inc.4<\/sup><\/p>\n Peer reviewed?<\/strong>\u00a0No.5<\/sup><\/p>\n Type:<\/strong>\u00a0Civilian publication.<\/p>\n Medium:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cGoverning\u2019s<\/i> information platform includes a robust website,\u00a0newsletters\u00a0and\u00a0custom content. Governing magazine ended its 32 year run as a print publication in August 2019.\u201d6<\/sup><\/p>\n Content:<\/strong> \u201cThe scope of topics we cover are as broad as the challenges we face: artificial intelligence, privacy, big data, security, the future of work, urban planning, financial systems and more.\u201d7<\/sup><\/p>\n Frequency of publication:\u00a0<\/strong>Daily<\/p>\n Location of submission guidelines: <\/strong>Writing for Governing<\/a><\/p>\n Types of contributions accepted:<\/strong>\u00a0Governing<\/em>\u00a0content is staff written and the publication does not typically accept unsolicited submissions for publication.\u00a0 However, submitted material is occasional accepted for the\u00a0Voices of the Governing Institute<\/a>\u00a0section of the website. \u201cVoices is curated by the Governing Institute, which seeks out practitioners and observers whose perspective and insight add to the public conversation about state and local government.\u201d8<\/sup><\/p>\n Submission and review process:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cFor more information or to submit an article to be considered for publication, please\u00a0contact editor John Martin<\/a>.\u201d9<\/sup><\/p>\n Editorial tone:\u00a0<\/strong>Journalistic.<\/p>\n Style guide used:<\/strong>\u00a0None specified.<\/p>\n This publication offers great potential for increasing the visibility of public libraries with the government administrators who fund and support them (or not). Library leader Ken Haycock highly recommends\u00a0Governing<\/em>, saying that \u201cWe need to read and reflect but also contribute to these important publications.\u201d Haycock points out that public librarians have much to gain by writing for such publications \u201cto ensure that their celebrations and concerns are front and center with those who make decisions affecting their future.\u201d10<\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publication circulation:<\/strong>\u00a0Governing<\/em> has 4.6million annual online visitors and over 7 million annual page views, which means about 500k monthly visitors and 692k average monthly page views. There are 94k newsletter subscribers and 97k social media followers.11<\/sup><\/p>\n Audience location and language or cultural considerations:<\/strong>\u00a0Audience is American, and the text is written in English.<\/p>\n Reader characteristics:\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>According to the current media kit, about 80% of\u00a0Governing\u2019s<\/em> audience works in the public sector, 55% are elected and senior government officials. Of those involved in government, approximately 70% are at the state and local levels.12<\/sup><\/p>\n Reader knowledge of LIS subject matter:<\/strong>\u00a0Knowledge of specialized LIS subject matter will be little. LIS jargon should be kept to a minimum. This is a well-educated, intelligent, and influential audience who would be interested in library issues pertaining to policy and government in local or state jurisdictions.<\/p>\n Readers of this journal represent all levels of government and hold positions in management, as elected or appointed officials, or staff. \u00a0An audience of decision-makers such as these provides an excellent opportunity for an LIS author to not only further his\/her\/their career, but to possibly influence real change for local or state libraries.<\/p>\n Last updated:<\/strong>\u00a0November 8, 2020<\/p>\n Publication analysis About the publication Title:\u00a0Governing: The Future of States and Localities ISSN:\u00a0 1930-69541 Website:\u00a0Governing Homepage Purpose, objective, or mission:\u00a0\u201cGoverning: The Future of States and Localities\u00a0takes on the question of what state and local government looks like in a world of rapidly advancing technology.\u00a0Governing\u00a0is a resource for elected and appointed officials and other public leaders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"parent":2017,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2617","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2617","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=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2617\/revisions\/3364"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the publication\u2019s submission guidelines<\/h3>\n
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