Message-Id: <a0624087bc94c3369f4ab@[192.168.1.27]> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 22:05:21 -0500 From: Carol Smallwood <smallwood@tm.net> Subject: Preservation Anthology Writers Needed
Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers and
Related Materials
Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Co-Editor: Carol Smallwood, MLS
Writing and Publishing: The Librarian's Handbook, American Library
Association, 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
Lynchburg, Ohio. In her library's partnership with the Lynchburg
Historical Society, she has conducted interviews for oral history
projects, coordinated contributions 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-Kingsville, in such journals as Music Reference Services
Quarterly.
Afterword: Jan Siebold, recipient of the New York Library
Association's School Library Media Section Cultural Media Award.
Chapters sought for an anthology by librarians who've worked with
historical societies in preserving local history, newspaper
preservation, managed manuscript/book collections of local authors,
photography collections, kept student oral and written interviews,
and have done/are doing related activities. Tips needed on overcoming
liability and invasion of privacy issues, what to save, ways to
preserve local material for current and future generations.
Librarians are often the last chance important aspects of local
culture have of being conserved.
No previously published, simultaneously submitted material;
3,000-3,500 words. Concise, how-to chapters, using bullets, headings,
written by one author. Compensation: a complimentary book, discount
on additional copies.
Please e-mail 2-3 topics described separately in 2-3 sentences by
January 30, 2011 with a short bio. You will be contacted which topics
will fit. Kindly place, PRESERVING/Your Name, on the subject line to:
smallwood@tm.net