Category: Books

Call for Book Chapter Proposals on the History of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

Call for Book Chapter Proposals on the History of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

Key Timeline

  • Deadline for Proposals: December 15, 2024
  • August, 2025, IFLA Library History SIG Sponsored Author’s Symposium to workshop and discuss chapter drafts
  • Full chapters will be due in April 2026
  • The book will be published in 2027 by De Gruyter academic publishing

Editors:

  • Steven Witt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Peter Lor, University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • Anna Maria Tamaro, University of Parma, Italy
  • Jeffrey Wilhite, Oklahoma University, USA

Inquiries: Steve Witt, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign swwitt@illinois.edu.

To mark the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions’ (IFLA) centenary, the IFLA Library History SIG seeks proposals for book chapters that investigate IFLA’s history. We seek broad and interdisciplinary perspectives that draw upon established historiographical methods and primary source materials. We encourage and welcome chapters that take regional perspectives while also seeking submissions focused on topics and themes of both information and transnational/global history as they relate to the impact and activities of IFLA on society, culture, and the information professions. Authors are encouraged to adopt analytical and critical, as distinct from annalistic and celebratory, approaches.

IFLA was founded in 1927 during a period marked by intense interest and development in the potential for organized knowledge to advance individuals and societies, accelerate science and technology, develop economies, and promote international peace and cooperation. Efforts in the library and information science field spawned ambitious projects to catalog human knowledge, standardize practices, and promote access to information through the proliferation globally of public libraries and information bureaus. In the ensuing 100 years, IFLA weathered economic depression, world war, the Cold War, regional conflict, and the continuing information revolutions. At the same time, libraries as institutions, cultural touchstones, and places of refuge played an important role in societies, advancing development, spreading literacy, and supporting governance at all levels. Libraries and the LIS professions have also served as cultural symbols that both inspire hope for social change and engender debate about the role of information and books in advancing contested values.  In short, libraries and organizations such as IFLA have helped to shape both individuals and societies throughout the past 100 years.

Submissions

Chapter proposals of no more than 1,000 words exclusive of the cover page and references are welcome.

Please include the following to facilitate the peer review process:

Cover Page that includes:

  • Author’s Name
  • Contact Information
  • Institutional Affiliation
  • Names of additional authors

Proposal with following elements:

  • Chapter Abstract (up to 1000 words) and with following elements:
  • Significance to both the history of IFLA and history of information and libraries
  • Temporal and geographical scope
  • Theme and topics covered (with reference to below organization and themes)
  • Archival and primary source materials to be used to support research
  • Bibliography containing relevant secondary source materials

Authors may submit proposals that are derived from historical research projects that have been completed or that are still in progress.

All proposals will undergo peer review.  Decisions will be communicated after the editorial committee’s review of the proposal and a full timeline and guide for authors will be provided to authors at that time.

Upon acceptance of the proposal, authors will be asked to provide a draft chapter for presentation, review, and comment at an author’s invitational symposium of the IFLA Library History SIG to be held in August of 2025.  Revised and complete chapters will be due for final review in April of 2026 to enable publication of the book in 2027.  Following review, chapters should range from 4,000 to 10,000 words inclusive of titles, abstract, manuscript, and references.  These will be submitted using the Chicago Manual of Style notes and bibliography system.

Although the final book will be published in English, the Library History SIG would like to encourage authors from diverse linguistic backgrounds to submit proposals.  The editors will work with authors who wish to write in a language other than English to facilitate translations.

Please send all submissions to the following address: IFLALIBHISTSIG@gmail.com with the following subject line: Chapter Proposal

Organization and Themes

The book aims to include both transnational and regional perspectives on IFLA and the history of libraries and the information society over the past 100 years.  The editors plan to organize the volume under the following broad themes:

  • Informational utopia – networks, knowledge organization, and the global rise of libraries
  • Cold War and the dawn of information technology
  • Information for All – access and information justice amidst globalization
  • The future of libraries in an era of ubiquitous information

Within these broad themes, regional perspectives are encouraged from the IFLA Regions:

  • Asia Oceania
  • Europe
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • North America
  • Sub-Saharan Africa

In addition, themes and topics to consider with this broader framing include yet are not limited to IFLA’s history as it relates to:

  • Free Access to Information Movement
  • Cultural Heritage
    • Disasters
    • Climate change
    • Committee of the Blue Shield
    • Memory of the World and UNESCO
  • Impact on social, economic, and/or political development
    • Libraries
    • Associations
    • Civil society / governance
  • Post-colonial societies
  • Globalization of information
  • Global political economy of libraries and information
  • Global governance of information and technology
  • Development of public libraries, school libraries, and other library types
  • Public library politics program
  • Relations with international Organizations or associations: League of Nations, UNESCO, WIPO, FID, etc.
  • Relations with foundations and national funding bodies: Carnegie, Bill and Melinda Gates, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) etc.
  • IFLA sections, units, and programs
  • Leadership development – related to grants and funding for conference attendance
  • Building strong library associations initiatives
  • IFLA during periods of war and social strife
  • Expansion of IFLA as truly global organization inclusive of global south etc.

During various planning sessions and presentations over the past several years, a number of themes have been identified and suggested for the centenary book.  These have been compiled by Peter Lor, one of the book editors, and are available in “Sources and themes for the historiography of IFLA”.

Contact Information

Steve Witt, PhD
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Convenor, IFLA, Library History SIG

Contact Email

swwitt@illinois.edu

URL: https://www.ifla.org/news/call-for-book-chapter-proposals-on-the-history-of-the-international-federation-of-library-associations-and-institutions/

Call for Book Chapter Proposals in the Lived Experiences of Librarians

Researchers Holm, Marcano, and Guimaraes welcome chapter proposals on topics related to the lived experiences of library professionals working within dysfunctional organizations. We have outlined several suggested chapter topics; however, we also welcome proposals for topics that we have not identified.

Working Title: Inhospitable: the lived experiences of librarians

Publisher:

This book will be published by Routledge and included within the book series Critical Issues in Library and Information Sciences and Services (series editor: Spencer Acadia, PhD, MA, MLS).

Book editors:

  1. Christina E. Holm, MLIS (ORCID 0000-0001-5263-7837)
  2. Nashieli Marcano, PhD, MSLIS (ORCID 0000-0002-1808-8165)
  3. Ana B. Guimaraes, MSLIS (ORCID 0000-0002-4096-7318)

Book overview:

Inhospitable will present the lived experiences of librarians from the Américas in evocative, vulnerable, and intimate accounts of the inhospitable norms and developments within librarianship in the globalized 21st century. Employing research rigor in presenting these personal encounters, Inhospitable will help readers critically examine librarianship in the field and promote solidarity among library workers. Through inclusive and embodied qualitative research methods and theoretical lenses, this book will present a shared and holistic understanding of dysfunctional library structures.

To be considered for inclusion within the book, chapter proposals must rely upon lived experience research methodologies, focus on a topic related to dysfunctional library organizations within the Américas, and contain an impact statement. Recognizing their backgrounds and agencial voices, the editors request submissions written primarily in English but welcome authors to include Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Indigenous language quotations or colloquial expressions.

Suggested topic areas:

The editors welcome submissions from all individuals who have worked within libraries or are pursuing entry into the profession.

  • Burnout
  • Critical librarianship
  • Cultivating positive norms
  • Demoralization and moral injury
  • Deprofessionalization
  • Developing agency
  • Dysfunctional library structures
  • Librarians navigating sociopolitical conflicts
  • Redignification and personal recovery
  • Role conflict
  • Vocational awe
  • Worker solidarity
  • Other topics that the applicant feels are relevant to this book

Proposal submission:

If you are interested in submitting a proposal or in learning more about this project please go to our website: https://www.spenceracadia.com/critical-lis-book-chapters

All proposals are due by January 10, 2025

Questions?

Please email: inhospitablelibraries@gmail.com

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations

Call for Book Chapter Proposals forItem Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations

Editors: Anna Chen, Rebecca Fenning Marschall, Molly McGuire, Nina Schneider, and Emily D. Spunaugle

Loss is inevitable in heritage preservation, and a nuanced understanding of the fundamental role of loss is essential to collections preservation, permanence, and sustainability. Cultural memory and heritage workers, too, face many other kinds of loss within the workplace that impacts their labor, including loss of resources, safety nets, and colleagues. 

The conference organizers of the 2023 online conference, “Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations,” co-hosted by the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and Oakland University Libraries, seek proposals for additional chapters for an edited collection based on the conference theme. This collection will consider the ongoing reassessment of memory and heritage work and heritage ownership, as it is understood by libraries, archives and related organizations, through an examination of the multiple meanings, complexities, and resonances of loss.

Featuring the voices of practitioners and scholars of libraries, museums, and archives, this volume will grapple with questions including, What is heritage and cultural property, and to whom do they belong? Who owns the past, and what does such ownership mean? How can a sustained interrogation of collection and heritage loss be productively leveraged to reckon with other kinds of loss in the cultural memory and heritage workspace? 

We invite proposals from diverse perspectives on a range of topics including, but not limited to, the following:
-Theft, repatriation, virtual reunification, shared print/collection development
-Endangered archives, postcustodial archival practice
-Approaches to loss in preservation and conservation
-Other related aspects of practice and research

We areespecially interested in receiving proposals in the following areas:

-Deaccessioning, redirections, removals

-Human and resource loss, including loss of institutional knowledge, in and beyond the workplace

-Loss and conservation of collections

We welcome proposals of chapters that will thoughtfully engage with experiences derived from the practice of scholar-practitioners, including librarians, archivists, curators, conservators, scholars, museum professionals, students, and other stakeholders at any point in their careers, from institutions and organizations of all sizes, and including independent researchers.

Timeline for Accepted Proposals:

  • April 2025: Completed first drafts of no more than 6,500 words (references included) due to editors
  • May/June 2025: Editors review chapters
  • June 2025: Editors return feedback to authors
  • September 2025: Authors submit final draft to editors
  • October 2025: Typescript due to publisher.

Please submit proposals (400-word maximum) using the following form: forms.gle/ek3vmf8sCqDjPb4F8

Please submit proposals by December 6. Submitters will be notified by January 6.

Call for Publications: Routledge Practicing Oral History Book Series

The Routledge Practicing Oral History book series invites proposals for works on applying oral history in our complex, contemporary world. Much has changed since the first title was published fourteen years ago, in technology, methodology, and recent history. We are here to meet the moment and bring new titles with the most current best practices to practitioners in areas where oral history might be used. 

 Recent titles:

  • Oral History at a Distance
  • Student-Centered Oral History: An Ethical Guide
  • Family Oral History Across the World
  • Practicing Oral History with Military and War Veterans

Contact Information

Nancy MacKay
Series editor
Contact Email
nancymackay@gmail.com

URL: https://www.routledge.com/Practicing-Oral-History/book-series/POHLCP

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Itza A. Carbajal, Tara Saleh, Yubing Tian, Marika Cifor, & Ricardo Gomez. “A Labyrinth of Public Information: A Cross-Case Analysis of Ongoing Research and Advocacy Using Public Records Requests.” The Journal of Civic Information 6, no. 2 (September 2024).

Treasa Harkin. “Interactive Scores at the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA).” Fontes Artis Musicae Volume 71, Number 3 July–September 2024.

Emma C. Beck, Terri L. Holtze, Rachel I. Howard, and Randy Kuehn. “Customizing Open-Source Digital Collections: What We Need, What We Want, and What We Can Afford.” Code4Lib Issue 59, 2024-10-07.

Challen R. Wright & Rayla E. Tokarz. “Analyzing course descriptions and student learning outcomes for digital primary source collection development.” Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship vol. 36 (2024).

Books

Access to Special Collections and Archives: Bridging Theory and Practice
Jae Jennifer Rossman
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Architecture, Media, Archives: The Fun Palace of Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price as a Cultural Project
Ana Bonet Miró
Bloomsbury, 2024

Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry
Edited By Alia Yunis, Robert Parthesius, NiccolòAcram Cappelletto
Routledge, 2024

Heritage and Wellbeing: The Impact of Heritage Places on Visitors’ Wellbeing
Faye Sayer
Oxford University Press, 2024

Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches
Amber Billey, Elizabeth Nelson, Rebecca Uhl, Core
Facet Publishing, 2024

Yves Pérotin (1922-1981): L’archiviste inimitable (Yves Pérotin (1922-1981): The inimitable archivist)
Anne-Cécile Tizon-Germe, Édouard Vasseur
l’École nationale des chartes – PSL, 2024

Objects in the Archives: Modern Material Culture and Heritage in the North
Edited By Kristján Mímisson, Davið Ólafsson
Routledge, 2024

Digitization, Copyright and the Law: Copyleft and the Future of Intellectual Property
Ettore M. Lombardi
Routledge, 2024

Recruiting and Managing Volunteers in Museums and Other Nonprofit Organizations: A Handbook for Volunteer Management, Second Edition
Kristy Van Hoven and Loni Wellman
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage and the Law: A Research Companion
Edited By Alberta Fabbricotti
Routledge, 2024

Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights: A Risk to Democracy
Matthew White
Routledge, 2024

Stardust: Cinematic Archives at the End of the World
Hannah Goodwin
University of Minnesota Press, 2024

Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice
Jennifer Carter
Routledge, 2024

Podcasts

Discover Library and Archives Canada, Porter Talk

Archives & Things, Phil Vassell & Donna McCurvin, Canada Black Music Archives

Reports

A Digital Knowledge Act for Europe
COMMUNIA Association

Call for Feedback: “Digital Preservation: A Critical Vocabulary”

Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to share that Trevor Owens and I are working on an edited volume titled “Digital Preservation: A Critical Vocabulary,” which is currently under contract with MIT Press.

To ensure that this work is both high-quality and impactful, we are opening an online open access preprint/draft for public comment. We invite you to read through the draft chapters and share your feedback. Your insights and suggestions are vital for enhancing this publication and making it as valuable as possible for the community.

How You Can Participate:

  • Read and Comment: Access the draft chapters and leave your comments here: https://digital-preservation-a-critical-vocabulary.pubpub.org/
  • Deadline for Initial Feedback: Comments received by November 1st will be most helpful, but your feedback after this date is still greatly appreciated.
  • Whether you are an expert in the field or simply interested in digital preservation, your participation will make a significant difference. Please take this opportunity to contribute to this important project.

Please feel free to share this with colleagues who may be interested.

Thank you in advance for your time and valuable input!

Rebecca & Trevor

——————————
Rebecca Frank
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
frankrd@umich.edu

Call for Chapters: Remembering and (Re)remembering Social Justice in the 21st Century

Remembering and (Re)remembering Social Justice in the 21st Century

deadline for submissions: October 20, 2024
full name / name of organization: Ben Alexander. Columbia University
contact email: bea3@columbia.edu

Call for Papers
New Volume: Remembering and (Re)remembering Social Justice in the 21st Century 
Publisher: FACET

Please Submit a 500 word Abstract by October 20.    

We are looking for 3, maybe 4, chapters to complete our volume that is in-contract with FACET.  Verne Harris will be authoring our Forward, Trudy Peterson our Introduction and Verne Harris our Afterword.  Chapter titles include:

  • Bending the Arc of History Toward Justice: The Romero Institute and the Digital Transformation of Social Justice Work in the Twenty-First Century – Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice
  • Justice as Morality, Morality as Justice: Cultivating a Moral Vision of Archival Capabilities and Human Dignity
  • Out of the Institutional Archive and on to the “Digital Streets”: Restoring Community Access to the Squatters’ Collective Oral History Project
  • The US Opioid Crisis through the Records Lens: Corporate Malfeasance and Justice Seeking.
  • The Archimedes Palimpsest, They Shall Not Grow Old and Shoah’s Interactive Holograms: Making Social Justice History Contemporary 
  • Recordkeeping for Menstrual Data: Privacy, Mobile App Analytics, and Consent

From the end of World War II through the change in millennia intersections between the evolution of the post-modern archive and the formation of post-modern historical discourses intersected concerns for social justice within complex geo-political landscapes composed of fractious post-colonial environments, Cold War interests, and often violent confrontations (within western democracies) centering on demands for inclusion and plurality.  In general, the archive created precedent for the extension of Activisms around the world by incorporating new forms of material remembrance that provided precedent for newly imagined forms of collective memory.  Indeed, while it may seem quaint today, archives struggled to preserve unprecedented quantities of visual materials (both moving image and static) as well as new forms of manuscript materials (mimeographs, Zines etc.) that in their day seemed dangerously ephemeral but were absolutely essential to social justice movements.  Further, the archivist had to imagine new ways to engage new forms of civil rights actions and movements. 

Scholars, archivists and activists today are confronted with similar challenges.  Activist cultures are now largely immaterial.  Activist movements are often global in reach but shaped by geographically specific cultures.  The archivist today must assume new agencies to engage and document social justice actions and movements.  Indeed, the distinction between archivisms and activisms is decidedly blurred. 

Our volume seeks collaborative and international discussion among scholars (from a breadth of interests), as well as activists and archivists to engage the tremendous challenges that threaten the historicity of 21st century social justice movements around the world.  

We are especially interested in 6 categories of research.

1)    What distinguishes 21st century social justice actions from 20th century activisms?  What unities and agencies remain consistent among movements including Occupy, The Arab Spring, and BLM?     

2)    Has the evolution in the very nature of social justice advanced expectations of the archivist?  Must the 21st century archivists assume activist agencies?  Might 21st century archivists require sensitivities (perhaps training) that is additional to 20th century models?  

3)    What will distinguish a 21st century social justice archive from its 20th century counterparts?  It would seem that the very core of archival practice will require careful revaluation in new and unique 21st century contexts.

4)    Certainly, we are experiencing an unprecedented loss of faith in authenticity – a troubling advent for the archive.  How will records produced within complex 21st century digital matrices assume accustomed authority (based on their authenticity).  These are concerns that were vastly limited within the scope and reach of material world. 

5)    From a most contemporary point of view, we will want to consider the tensions between recent political evolutions and assumptions about the very nature of private information specifically and who controls information that is intended to hold government accountable more generally. 

6)    Finally, we are looking for a broad international perspective.  The examples of 21st century social justice referenced above (Occupy, Arab Spring, and BLM) are definitively international in their reach.  How might the experience of these previous revolutionary actions inform approaches to documenting more contemporary social dispensation.  We are especially interested in perspectives from activists and archivists from around the world.  

New/Recent Publications

Books

The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora
Edited by Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper and Gene Melton II
Rutgers University Press, 2024

Journalism History and Digital Archives
Bødker, Henrik (Ed.)
Routledge, 2023

New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages: Collecting, Curating, Assembling
Edited By Emily N. Savage
Routledge, 2024

Mind Museums: Former Asylums and the Heritage of Mental Health
Francesca Lanz
Routledge, 2024

Articles

Jatowt, A., Sato, M., Draxl, S., Duan, Y.,  Campos, R., & Yoshikawa, M.  (2024). Is this news article still relevant? Ranking by contemporary relevance in archival search. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 25, 197–216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00377-y

Zhao, Y., Wu, X., & Li, S. (2024). Perceived values to personal digital archives and their relationship to archiving behaviours: An exploratory research based on grounded theory. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 56(3), 677-697. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006231161327

Pierce, Rachel. “Sustainability and Swedish Women’s History: Digitizing Photographs from the KvinnSam Archives.” Digital Humanities Quarterly
Volume 18 Number 3, 2024.

Sony Prosper, Alexandria Rayburn, Yvette Ramirez, Ricardo L. Punzalan. “Indigenous Digital Projects: An Assessment Framework.” Information & Culture Volume 59, Number 1, 2024.

New/Recent Publications

Books

Chapron, Emmanuelle, and Fabienne Henryot, eds. Archives en bibliothèques, XVIe-XXIe siècles. Lyon: ENS Editions; Institut d’histoire du livre, 2023.

Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel
Crucifix, Benoît
Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
Helton, Laura E.
Columbia University Press, 2023.

On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
Holsinger, Bruce W.
Yale University Press, 2023.

Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century
Ludovico, Alessandro
MIT Press, 2023.

Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries
Molin, Emma Hagström
Brill, 2023.

Digital Humanities in the Library, Second Edition
Arianne Hartsell-Gundy Laura Braunstein Liorah Golomb
ACRL, 2024

Journalism History and Digital Archives
Edited By Henrik Bødker
Routledge, 2021

The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora
Edited by Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper and Gene Melton II
Rutgers University Press, 2024

The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and its Consequences, ca. 1890–1945
Edited by Laura Cleaver, Danielle Magnusson, Hannah Morcos and Angéline Rais
ARC Humanities Press, 2024

Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation: The Keeping Place
Robert Hudson, Shannon Woodcock
Routledge, 2022

Welcoming Museum Visitors with Unapparent Disabilities
Beth Redmond-Jones, ed.
Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Materialities in Dance and Performance: Writing, Documenting, Archiving
Gabriele Klein / Franz Anton Cramer (eds.)
transcript, 2024

Global Voices from the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition
Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive
Marija Dalbello, Sarah Wadsworth, eds.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Illustration and Heritage
Rachel Emily Taylor
Bloomsbury, 2024

Articles

Jatowt, A., Sato, M., Draxl, S. et al. Is this news article still relevant? Ranking by contemporary relevance in archival search. Int J Digit Libr 25, 197–216 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00377-y

Garg, K., Jayanetti, H.R., Alam, S. et al. Challenges in replaying archived Twitter pages. Int J Digit Libr 25, 217–236 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00379-w

Alenka Kavčič Čolić, Andreja Hari. “Improving accessibility of digitization outputs: EODOPEN project research findings.” Digital Library Perspectives 40, no. 2 (2024)

Podcasts

Archives in Context: Season 8, Episode 3: Maryna Paliienko

CFP: Beta Phi Mu Scholars Series Books by Rowman & Littlefield

The Beta Phi Mu Scholars Series, published by Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of Bloomsbury, welcomes book proposals that advance knowledge in the discipline and profession of library and information science. The following broad topics are suggestions that future authors may wish to undertake, but is by no means an exhaustive list:

  • The economics of information and libraries
  • Innovative service options in different environments
  • Technologies that facilitate librarians’ and information specialists’ work
  • Examination of the dynamics of communities
  • Complexities of decision making
  • Developing professionals to make differences in organizations
  • Research into communication challenges
  • Serving ethnically, culturally, and/or linguistically diverse populations
  • Creating models for the sustenance of leadership in organizations

More information about the series can be found here. To see our most recent publications, please view the Rowman & Littlefield website.

Authors are asked to submit proposals that include the following:

  1. Working title
  2. Expected publication date and anticipated timeline
  3. Estimated length of manuscript
  4. Summary
  5. Outline of chapters
  6. Drafted chapter (if possible)
  7. Explanation of the significance of the manuscript
  8. Resume or vita addressing author’s qualifications

Inquiries, questions, and proposals should be sent directly to the Editor, Andrea Falcone, at bpmseries@gmail.com.