[Discussion] Culture, Context and History in the Post-Soviet World of Information

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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 words, formatted in APA style and submitted electronically to
wgraves@bryant.edu. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2006.

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

William Graves III
Associate Professor of Humanities
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 nycejame@emporia.edu or
at the following address:

James M. Nyce
Associate Professor
School of Library and Information Management
Emporia State
1200 Commercial Street
Emporia, Kansas  66801
USA