Call for Chapters

Call for Proposals

We are excited to invite chapter proposals from both AMICAL members and IFLA members for our IFLA Book Series Publication to be published by DeGruyter with an anticipated publication date of Fall 2024.


Book Title: Changing information services and user experiences

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/amicaliflabook2024/home 

Call for Chapters: https://sites.google.com/view/amicaliflabook2024/call-for-chapters 


About the book

This book publication will focus on changing information and research support services across international academic libraries in the post-pandemic era. The scope of the book will focus on 4 main areas addressing the following themes:

Each theme above will be a section of the book, with chapters subsumed under each one.


Call for Chapters

Chapters should align with one or more of the 4 thematic areas above and should focus on academic library instruction, research, reference, and public services specifically. 

Potential chapter topics may include, but are not limited to: 

If you have experience working in a public service area of academic librarianship, please consider submitting a proposal! The editors encourage proposals by authors from a variety of higher education institution types (small colleges, larger universities, etc.) worldwide. Chapters can be submitted by a single author or multiple authors from the same institution or across different institutions. All successful submissions will undergo a peer-to-peer review process by other authors during the editorial procedure.

**Please note: We will not accept chapters that focus on non-public service areas, such as collection development and management, technical services, and IT or systems issues within the library. This book will specifically focus only on public services in an academic context.


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Submission Procedure

The proposal should include author details, the working title of your chapter, and a chapter description (up to 500 words). The description should include:

Projects that are in process should be noted, and do not need to include outcomes or lessons learned / recommendations, but should include your preliminary findings and plans to move forward. Projects that are fully completed with data collected and already analyzed will be given higher priority for acceptance. All projects must have been done in the last 2 years (from June 2021 to the present) and must be original. Chapters must not be previously published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. All selected chapters will be published by IFLA Publications (via DeGruyter).


Please see the section below for an example proposal. 

Submit your proposal through this Google Form by September 3, 2023

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Example Proposal

Abstract: The American University of Paris (AUP) is a private liberal arts institution with an urban campus in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. AUP had been searching for some time for an appropriate building to house its library and expanded student services. The AUP Library commenced in the 1960s in the basement of the American Church in Paris, located on the Quai d’Orsay. In 2017, the University purchased a generic 10-storey office building on the Quai d’Orsay, directly in front of another AUP building and a few metres from the American Church. The renovation and extension of the building focused on linking all student services including the library. The combined Student Life and Learning Commons incorporating the library opened in March 2019. The design of the new spaces entailed three main elements: restructuring the office building, including updates for fire codes and accessibility; constructing a link to the existing AUP building behind it; and an interior fit-out that would spatially express the identity of an institution evolving to meet the challenges of 21st century higher education. The story of the transformation of a 1950s office building into a dynamic, student-centred library and learning commons is the subject of this chapter.

Keywords: Academic libraries – France; Library buildings – Design and construction; Office buildings – Remodelling for other use

From IFLA Publications: https://repository.ifla.org/handle/123456789/1100