BCALA seeks authors for Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening

The Black Caucus of the ALA (BCALA) is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding, and is inviting library students to consider writing for the next installment of BCALA’s Black Librarian in America series.

Prospective writers can submit a 1,000-word abstract of a proposed chapter in the new BCALA book entitled The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening, set for publication in October, 2021.  According to a recent BCALA blog post:

Prospective authors should submit 1000 word abstracts to blacklibrariansbook@bcala.org by December 1, 2020 at 11:59p.m. Eastern. Abstracts must include the following information:

  • Target audience (e.g., type of information worker-school, public, academic, archivists, museum curators, LIS educators, LIS students)

  • Target section (e.g., Black Library History; Celebrating collective and individual identity; Black librarians across settings; Moving Forward)

  • Chapter rationale (e.g., purpose, scope, guiding questions, implications)

  • Chapter organization (e.g., outline, section headers, or signposting)

  • Author(s) Bio(s): (e.g., ~100-words on background or experience)

For more information, check out the BCALA press release at https://www.bcala.org/call-for-abstracts.