Call For Articles: Public Services Quarterly

Public Services Quarterly, a quarterly journal published by Haworth Press, is looking for articles.

This peer-reviewed journal examines traditional and nontraditional areas of public service in academic libraries. Combining research findings and case studies with authoritative articles, the journal tracks the changing patterns in organizational and managerial structures to present new initiatives for expanding and improving library services.

Public Services Quarterly covers a broad spectrum of public service issues, presenting practical strategies for implementing new initiatives and research-based insights into effective practices. It highlights the latest initiatives in reference and research assistance, user education and instruction, information literacy, and access and delivery services, and examines creative ways to use technology to provide your students and faculty with the support they need. The journal also provides outreach activities that can help raise your library's profile in the community and increase its value to patrons—on campus and off—through innovative efforts and successful marketing strategies that promote resources and services.

Potential topics include, though are not limited to:

collaborating with classroom instructors
developing teaching competencies for instructors in the academic library
training for enhanced reference service
defining electronic librarianship
aiming library orientations at academic administrations
testing Web usability on a shoestring budget
creating Web research guides
using a committee to reach patrons
maintaining high-density remote storage
plus circulation, document delivery, interlibrary loan, e-reserves, digital collections, electronic theses and dissertations, and much more

For submission guidelines, please see the PSQ website. Articles should be submitted electronically to Trudi Jacobson, PSQ Editor.