Advances in Library Administration and Organization

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite contributions for a new volume in the
Elsevier series Advances in Library Administration and
Organization: “Culture, Context and History in the
Post-Soviet World of Information Institutions,
Resources and Practices.”

This volume is inspired by the cross-national and
comparative research of Richard Quandt, Christine
Borgman, Andrew Lass, Nadia Caidi, all of which raise
fundamental questions about the role culture, context
and history have played in the post-Soviet
reproduction and transformation of information
institutions, resources and practices across the
former Soviet bloc.

We are particularly interested in original
contributions that address one or more of the
following issues:

The definitions, understandings and roles played by
local concepts of “culture” and ”cooperation” in the
construction of cross-national information agendas in
the post-Soviet space;

The character of the relationship between local
concepts of “public” and “private” and the roles this
specific relationship has played in the reproduction,
transformation and/or invention of institutions
dedicated to the management and provision of
information;

Transformations in the social uses of libraries, ICTs,
and public/private collections in the post-Soviet
space;

Transformations in the understanding, goals and
significance of “reading” over the past ten to fifteen
years.

We welcome contributions from any discipline. We are
particularly interested in receiving original
contributions from scholars outside of the US.

Although we will consider shorter or longer papers,
submissions should be 10,000 to 12,500 word, formatted
in APA style and submitted via email. As for
deadlines for submissions, please contact
Graves(details below).

If you prefer to correspond or submit manuscripts by
mail, please address all correspondence to:

William Graves III, PhD
English and Cultural Studies Department
Bryant University
1150 Douglas Pike
Smithfield, Rhode Island 02917
USA

For inquiries regarding the journal “Advances in
Library Administration and Organization,” please
contact James M Nyce at jnyce@bsu.edu or at the
following address:

James M. Nyce, PhD
Department of Anthropology
Ball State University
2000 W. University Ave.
Muncie, IN 47306
USA