From: "Seymour, Janet I" <DYKEMAJI@uwec.edu> Subject: FW: Listserve FW: request for chapter submissions Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:10:36 +0000 Message-ID: <8FACD6FAA2A852459A94CEFB7C8F98700CAC09B2@EX2010-MBX1.uwec.edu>
From: Carol Smallwood [mailto:smallwood@tm.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 7:45 PM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Subject: Re: Digest from 12/29/2010 18:02:43
Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers and Related M
aterials
Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Co-Editor: Carol Smallwood, MLS
Writing and Publishing: The Librarian's Handbook, American Library Associ
ation, 2010 http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2646
Librarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook, American Library
Association, 2010
Co-Editor: Elaine Williams, MLS, Highland County District Library in Lynchb
urg, Ohio. In her library's partnership with the Lynchburg Historical Socie
ty, she has conducted interviews for oral history projects, coordinated con
tributions to the Ohio Memory Project, and co-chaired the local chapter of
the Ohio Bicentennial Commission.
Foreword: Bruce R. Schueneman, Head of Systems at Texas A&M University-King
sville, in such journals as Music Reference Services Quarterly.
Afterword: Jan Siebold, recipient of the New York Library Association's Sch
ool Library Media Section Cultural Media Award.
Chapters sought for an anthology by librarians who've worked with historica
l societies in preserving local history, newspaper preservation, managed ma
nuscript/book collections of local authors, photography collections, kept s
tudent oral and written interviews, and have done/are doing related activit
ies. Tips needed on overcoming liability and invasion of privacy issues, wh
at to save, ways to preserve local material for current and future generati
ons. Librarians are often the last chance important aspects of local cultur
e have of being conserved.
No previously published, simultaneously submitted material; 3,000-3,500 wor
ds. Concise, how-to chapters, using bullets, headings, written by one autho
r. Compensation: a complimentary book, discount on additional copies.
Please e-mail 2-3 topics described separately in 2-3 sentences by January 3
0, 2011 with a short bio. You will be contacted which topics will fit. Kind
ly place, PRESERVING/Your Name, on the subject line to: smallwood@tm.net
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