[Web4lib] Call for articles: Administration, management, and strategic planning of cataloging and metadata departments

[Brad Eden]

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_Cataloging & Classification Quarterly_ will be publishing a special issue on 21st-century challenges for library administrators in the management and strategic planning of operations and personnel in cataloging and metadata departments.  The guest editor is looking for articles that articulate new directions and opinions, as well as case studies, related to re-visioning, repurposing, establishing efficiencies, and/or redirecting both workflows and personnel within cataloging and metadata departments.  Articles that examine how to justify and/or defend what are commonly known as “behind-the-scenes” or “back-end” library operations and personnel in the current budget crisis are especially timely.  The guest editor is looking for a wide range of international participation, so proposals from authors outside of the United States are encouraged.  Articles can be of any length, and figures and screen shots are encouraged.

If you are interested in contributing, please send the guest editor your name, a short proposal of the topic, and a tentative title for the article.  Deadline for proposals is September 1, 2009.  Articles would be due to the guest editor by January 1, 2010.  Any questions can be directed to the guest editor.  Thank you.

Dr. Brad Eden
Guest editor, _Cataloging & Classification Quarterly_
Associate University Librarian for Technical Services and Scholarly Communication
University of California, Santa Barbara
eden at library.ucsb.edu