Current Call for Papers
School Libraries Worldwide is the official professional and research journal of the International Association of
School Librarianship. It is published twice yearly, in January and July, and is available online and through select
periodical databases. School Libraries Worldwide publishes new works of current research and scholarship on any
aspect of school librarianship. All papers are double-blind peer reviewed and adhere to the highest editorial
standards.
Methodologies and Theories in School Library Research (Volume 21, Number 2, July 2015). This issue of
School Libraries Worldwide is based on the theme of the free discussion of employing methods and theories.
For this issue we will concentrate on how school library researchers employ theories and methodologies to their
work in creating new knowledge for the field.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Methods
Unobtrusive methods
Historical
Bibliometrics
Meta-analysis
Surveys
Interviews
Experiments
Case studies
Social media analysis
Observation
Longitudinal approaches
Theories
Learning theory
Information seeking
Theory building
Sense making
Information search process
Berry picking
Communication, social sciences education
This issue will provide an opportunity to address not only successful methodological approaches to empirical
investigations, but offer a context or framework for discussions of methodological or theoretical issues that
transcends the specific enquiry. The editors will accept papers on creative methods of gathering data, but are also
interested in creative methods of contextualizing research and analyzing data. The use of methods and theories from
related fields such as education, sociology, information science, and psychology and how they apply to school
library research are particularly welcome
School library researchers are invited to submit papers reporting their own original research that has not been
published elsewhere. Authors who wish to know more about the issue theme should contact the editors to discuss
their interests.
School Libraries Worldwide also welcomes submissions of excellent research on any topic relating to school
librarianship for the open portion of the journal.
Submission guidelines are available online at School Libraries Worldwide and papers can be submitted online at
http://slw.cci.fsu.edu
Deadline for submissions of full papers: May 1, 2015.
Authors interested in contributing to this issue should contact the editors directly, Nancy Everhart and Marcia A.
Mardis.
General suggestions and inquiries for the journal may be sent to:
Dr. Nancy Everhart and Dr. Marcia A. Mardis
Editors, School Libraries Worldwide
School of Library and Information Science
College of Communication & Information
The Florida State University
Tallahassee FL 32306-2100 USA
Fax: 1 (780) 492-7622
E-mail: slw@cci.fsu.edu