Growing Pains, Part II

February 11th, 2008 Stewart Posted in CIL, information literacy, writing |

The latest issue of Communications in Information Literacy was published this morning. I couldn’t be happier with the final product — We’ve got some really good articles and I think everyone involved should be really proud of their work.

We have other CIL projects waiting in the wings. One item we hope to wrap up this week or next is the print-on-demand volume (via Lulu.com). Proceeds from sales of the printed volume will help defray our publication costs, so if you are a librarian and you want to support our work, please talk with your collection managers about purchasing a volume for your stacks. Over 180 libraries have already cataloged the journal; if even half of them were to buy a copy for their print collections, that would (most likely) pay for our next six months of web hosting. We may also ask for donations in exchange for coffee mugs and other PBS-style gifts.

Also we’re about to announce the inclusion of our journal in a major library literature database. More to come about that soon.

Hopefully, other IL librarians will find what we’re doing of value. We need a primary journal for information literacy, and I think CIL is well poised to be that journal. If you have any suggestions or ideas that you would like to share, either with myself or co-editor Chris Hollister, just drop us a line at editors@comminfolit.org. Thanks!