[Libs-Or] DEADLINE EXTENDED!! OLAQ Call for Submissions | Spring Issue, 2017.

[Jenkins LUMPKIN]

The deadline for submissions has been extended to April 15th.  Please
submit any and all ideas, abstracts, and proposals to Jenkins Lumpkin
<jenkins.h.lumpkin at gmail.com> by 5:00 pm on Saturday, April 15th, 2017.

The theme for the 2017 Spring Issue of the Oregon Library Association
Quarterly is as follows:  Come What May or Apocalypse Now? The Evolution of
Oregon Libraries.

For Your Consideration:

What’s your stance on the neutrality of libraries?

Radicalization: is it just me?

How loud do you want your voice to be?

What three words
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Df8DxzoDiBJGoAZDCs0k5Z4l6znYPS5qZnxjtvBhpDg/edit>
would you use to describe the proposed IMLS cuts?

Do you “feel the double-edged sword of participating in a flawed system
versus sitting out and not participating at all?”

What’s the role of social justice, equity, and/or inclusion for libraries?

Are you as exhausted as I am?

Most of all:

Between your finger and your thumb, does a squat pen rest?

Dig with it.

Events on a national, state, and local level have unfolded in dramatic
fashion across all boundaries within the Oregon library landscape.  Aside
from the personal, how have these events changed the professional,
societal, or cultural role of libraries - if at all?  Do professional
ethics have a new place in this landscape, and if so - is it a place of
rejoicing and revelry or mourning and dissolution?

In the 2017 Spring issue of the OLA Quarterly, you're invited to explore
the currents that have flowed through your professional life and your
library.  Has the manner in which we serve our communities changed?  Should
it?  Has your perspective changed on the intersection of your personal,
political, and professional spheres?  For you, has this been an
introduction to the art of losing?  Or, in your library, has it been a time
of renewed growth and independence?

What happens next?  How do we combat our own fatigue - either of compassion
or resistance -  or both?  What does all of this mean?

I have no idea.

Let's try this:  tell me your stories.  Share your experiences with your
colleagues, compatriots, and friends throughout the Oregon library
landscape.  You can "go as far inside as you need to," and we'll listen.
Together, let's try to find true North.


With thanks and acknowledgment:

Bishop, Elizabeth. "One Art." The Complete Poems 1926-1979.  New York:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.

Heaney, Séamus. "Digging" New Selected Poems, 1966-1987. London & Boston:
Faber and Faber, 1990.

Morrison, Toni.  Beloved: A Novel.  New York:  Knopf, 1987.

West, Jessamyn.  "About." Librarian.net. 31 Mar. 2017.
http://www.librarian.net/about/.

Submission Details:

For consideration, potential authors may submit ideas, abstracts, and
proposals to Jenkins Lumpkin <jenkins.h.lumpkin at gmail.com>.  Please limit
initial submissions to 250 words or fewer.  Submissions will be accepted
until no later than April 1st, 2017.

Additional OLAQ information <http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/>

Author instructions
<http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/author_instructions.html>

Provisional publication schedule
<http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/about.html>


The editorial staff include Jenkins Lumpkin, Guest Editor; Jane Scheppke
and Jenn Weston, Editors; Charles Wood, OLAQ Coordinator.  The editorial
staff are wholly committed to presenting a wide spectrum of perspectives
and voices.

Questions?  Contact Jenkins Lumpkin <jenkins.h.lumpkin at gmail.com> or Charles
Wood <wuchakewu at gmail.com>.


The OLAQ is a professional journal that showcases the writing and work of
library employees in Oregon, and represents Oregon library staff globally.
Authors included in OLAQ retain the rights to her/his work.  OLAQ is
indexed by Library Literature & Information Science, as well as Library,
Information Science & Technology Abstracts. Full text of OLAQ is also
available through HW Wilson's Library Literature and Information Science
Full Text, EBSCO Publishing's Library, Information Science and Technology
Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text, and the Digital Commons Network.

Best,

Jenkins

*Jenkins Lumpkin*
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Multnomah County Library
919 NE 19th Avenue | Suite 250 | Portland, OR | 97232
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