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session_b5 Session B5 - room 2A47
Scholarship/Publishing in Library Science
 
Working towards apublication
Looking for ideas, how didyou go about publishing
create a community withpeople looking to publish
Questions about turningdissertations into a published article, or just publishing the dissertations
Canada: Dissertations through dissertation institution repository
People are more likely toread it if it is an article
Someone gave their experienceabout writing their book reviewing
Evidence Based PracticeLibrary Journal is a place that you can look to publisher for the first time
UCLQ has a program in April3-5
QNL is having an event onMarch 29th
 
helpful tips
Choose a journal
Look at what the journal ispublishing
open access
Look at the articles in thejournal for a format
prove that is significantand new
readable
must write a full article
have people review yourarticle before you actually send it
collaborating for you firstarticle is a good idea
Start with a poster and themove it on towards an article
set a deadline for yourself
accountability
 
there is a gap for arabiclanguage
english has more audience,but if people don't publish in arabic there will never be a catalog of arabicarticles
Can you translate the samearticle for different publications? the consensus is that you cannot. Usecreative commons
Literature in libraries isvery practiced based, not as theory based
Traditionally librarianslike practices based not theoretically based, different from a lot of researchin fields that had more theory
Small sample sizes,questionable methodology, maybe not taken as seriously from other socialsciences
blog writings, magazines asa way to start
writing club in doha, notacademic 
 
ideas
public libraries in ruralAfrica
took syllabuses and made recommendationsfor library interventions for all courses and UCQ
create a community of people that want to publish and write about it
 
Arabic language journals
Cybrarian
 
Theory Journals 
Journal of Documentation
Library Theory and Research