Call for Applications for New LCHS Editors
now accepting applications.
We seek an editor or editorial team for Libraries: Culture, History, and Society who can contribute to and expand the development of the field of library history by producing LHRT’s scholarly journal, mentoring authors, and fostering diverse, equitable scholarship in library history, both across disciplines and across the globe.
The appointment will begin in spring 2023. The new editor or co-editors will be appointed to a two-year term (2023-2025), with the option to renew with the approval of the LHRT Executive Committee. The new editor or co-editors will work alongside the outgoing co-editors until spring 2024.
Applications are now due August 15, 2022.
who are we?
Libraries: Culture, History, and Society (LCHS) is the official scholarly journal of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association. LCHS aims to study libraries within their broader historical, humanistic, and social contexts. You can learn more about the journal here. Read the latest issue, guest edited by Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, on Black women librarians here.
what do we value?
LCHS is committed to centering and enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in all its practices—not just what it publishes, but whom and how it publishes. Read the full LCHS DEI Statement and Action Plan here.
curious? join us to learn more.
Interested in applying, but want to know more? Attend one of our virtual information sessions, hosted by members of the search committee and current co-editors of LCHS. Register to attend one of the sessions below:
Session 1: July 7, 5:00-6:00 EDT
Session 2: July 8, 12:00-1:00 EDT
read the full call for applications.
You can open the call in Google Docs to the right, or access the file here.
LCHS Call for Editor or Co-Editors_public.docx