As you may have heard, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences is now edited by myself and Mary Niles Maack, also of UCLA. The forthcoming Third Edition is scheduled to come out sometime in late 2008 or early 2009.
We have completely re-conceptualized the encyclopedia, expanding it to cover all the major information disciplines, including LIS, archives, records management, museum studies, bibliography, informatics, knowledge management, information systems, document and genre studies, and social studies of information. I will be giving a paper on it at the CoLIS 6 (Conceptions of LIS) conference in Sweden in August, providing both the theoretical and practical rationale for this approach.
We hope that the real-world result, though, will be the furtherance of mutual understanding and collective power among the information fields. We believe that both theory and professional practice should benefit from this unified approach.
We anticipate having something over 600 article-length entries in the encyclopedia, which should be considerably larger than the four-volume set was for the Second Edition. Most of the articles have been assigned by now, but life being full of the usual vicissitudes, there are a few planned entries remaining that we do not yet have authors for. Some of these articles are quite central to the field. In some cases we just didn’t happen to find someone to invite (we don’t know everybody’s specialties and interests!), and in other cases authors had to withdraw for one reason or another.
Sooooooo, for the entries below, we are inviting you to volunteer to write one or more articles, and/or to suggest people who you think would do a good job writing the article. We are interested in faculty, practitioners, and students with at least one year of grad school as possible authors. Don’t be shy! Junior faculty should also know that articles are refereed, so, unlike some encyclopedia contributions, this one should count for your tenure.
Listed below are needed topics. Depending on the results of current invitations outstanding, we may announce more possibilities in a couple of weeks. PLEASE RESPOND BY JULY 31.
Thanks, Marcia
NEEDED ARTICLES:
Library public services
Film and broadcast archives
Social science data archives
Serials collection and management
Special librarianship
Special libraries
Reprography in libraries and archives
Library portals and gateways
Library architecture and interior design
Oral history in libraries
Custody and chain of custody
Disruptive information technologies
Information theory
Bioinformatics
Artificial intelligence
Information technology consulting firms (e.g., Accenture)
Philosophy and psychology of collecting
Cybernetics
Network management
Optical scanning and text recognition
Records compliance and risk management [records management]
Records organization and access [records management]
Records preservation [records management]
Expert locators and recommender systems
Information storage technologies
Version control
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Marcia J. Bates, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Editor (with Mary Niles Maack), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences
Department of Information Studies
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 USA
Tel: 310-206-9353
Fax: 310-206-4460
Web: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/