Saturday, June 20, 2009

Upcoming Book on Gen X Librarians

Gen-X Perspectives on Librarianship (working title)
http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=1521

A call for submissions just went out for an upcoming book on Gen-X librarians. The stated objective of the book is: "to view, critique and analyze what makes Gen-X librarians unique among other generations of librarians, what is unique or different about the professional situation of Gen-X librarians, what have Gen-X librarians contributed to the field, and what have they changed about the profession."

Sound familiar?

I know we decided to recruit panelists locally but is there any interest in possibly approaching the editors of this volume to see if they might be interested in some form of participation? It would likely cost us (especially since they're not local) but the similarities between their project and ours just seemed to great to ignore.

~ Joe

6 comments:

LACUNY Institute 2009 said...

would be great to collab somehow!
how serependipidous

what do we think of inviting one of the editors of the book as panelist?


or, sending the call for posters to those who are submitting work for publishing in the book?

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a good idea.
Sharon

LACUNY Institute 2009 said...

sorry, forgot to put name in the first comment!

more thoughts--we could invite either rebecca tolley-stokes or eric estep (these are the lead editors for the book) to be panelist. they are both academic librarians. i would assume that they've given some thought on the issues...let's decide by end of week on this?

p.s. i see pingback on the website for the book to our planning blog discussion

~brian

Jane said...

I think it's a great idea to send them the poster or panelist call(and maybe a publishing opportunity for a LACUNY person as well?)
Jane

Jane said...

Actually, I think an invitation as a panelist would be best, and could exposure for LACUNY.

LACUNY Institute 2009 said...

joe, could you go ahead and contact one of the editors--invited one of them to be a panelist? (in past, we've offered $100 for an invited panelist, plus travel and hotel)

it should be excellent to have the connection to the publication....

brian

 
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