Guidelines for Contributors 

The LIRT Newsletter is not a refereed journal.  Articles are accepted or rejected based on the judgment of the editors who consult, when necessary, with the newsletter committee and LIRT's executive board which also functions as the newsletter's editorial board. 
 

Content

While the LIRT Newsletter exists primarily to inform members about activities of the roundtable, the newsletter committee actively seeks and welcomes contributions that address library instruction in any library setting public, school, academic or special. 

In the past, the newsletter has heightened awareness of instruction-related literature, provided practical tips for library instructors, offered aids for dealing with instructional technology, alerted readers to regional and state activities related to library instruction, and allowed practitioners the opportunity to showcase their successful instructional programs and to express opinions about the place of instruction in libraries.  Authors may wish to browse previous issues on the web <http://nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu/~hsswww/lirt/lirt.html> to see the range of content appropriate for the newsletter.  
 

Article Types Accepted

Although any submission related to library instruction will be considered for publication, the committee is eager to encourage articles of the following kinds: 
 
  • Teaching technique articles introduce a technique and show how it can be used in a library instruction setting.
  • Successful assignment articles examine a library assignment and show how its success might be replicated in a different environment.
  • Technologies in teaching articles explain a creative use of technology in the library classroom.
  • Review articles provide a summary and evaluation of a book, software, or hardware product that may be of interest to library instructors.
  • Focus on Academic/Public/School/Special Libraries articles focus on instruction issues that may be of particular interest to librarians doing instruction in a particular kind of library.

Bibliographic and Editorial Style

  1.  All LIRT News articles should be practical and useful.  Our contributors use a journalistic, sometimes humorous, tone.
  2. Occasionally, feature articles can extend to one thousand words or more, but a more typical length is 500-800 words. Authors should be guided by what they have to say rather than an arbitrary word length.
  3. All articles are subject to editing for length, style, and content. 
  4. LIRT News follows the Modern Language Association Handbook, 5th edition for all matters of capitalization, punctuation, and bibliographic style.  Authors whose articles include references to printed or Internet resources are urged to observe the conventions set forth in that book and on the MLA web site <http://www.mla.org/set_stl.htm>.  Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition is the newsletter's authority for spelling.

Procedure for Submitting Articles

Articles should be sent via electronic mail to the editor of the newsletter:  davids@creighton.edu. 
Those who do not have access to email may submit typescripts to the following address:  
    David Sherwood 
    LIRT News Editor 
    Reinert/Alumni Memorial Library 
    Creighton University 
    2500 California Plaza 
    Omaha, NE 68178 
    402-280-2927 (phone) 
    402-280-2435 (fax)
When an article is to include photographs or graphics, send the text directly to the editor via email (davids@creighton.edu), but send the graphics in either electronic or print format to the production editor: 
 
    Jana Edwards, Production Editor, LIRT News 
    Humanities and Social Science Reference, 
    George A. Smathers Libraries 
    University of Florida, POB 117001 
    Gainesville, FL 32611-7001 
    352-392-4919 (phone) 
    352-392-7261 (fax) 
    edwards@ufl.edu
Advertising 

Free ads are available for LIRT committees and for groups such as the Instruction Section of the ACRL who wish to advertise events of interest to the LIRT News readership.  The editors, newsletter committee, and LIRT News Editorial Board (LIRT Executive Board) will decide which organizations qualify for free ads on a case-by-case basis.  

Advertising copy should be sent directly to the production editor who will consult with  the advertiser about graphics and design; however, camera-ready copy is appreciated when possible. 

Paid advertising may be arranged under special circumstances.  Contact the editor for more details. 


LIRT News, December 1998. Volume 21, number 2.
To report problems, please contact the LIRT News Production editor at edwards@ufl.edu

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