[SIGCIS-Members] Information & Culture

[Bill Aspray]

Dear colleagues,

I am writing to encourage you to submit high-quality articles to  
Information & Culture: A Journal of History, of which I am now the  
editor.  The journal is in its 46th year and is currently published  
under the title Libraries & the Cultural Record.  The journal  
currently publishes in the areas of the history of libraries,  
archives, museums, conservation, and information science.  Under the  
new title, which goes into effect this winter, we will expand the  
scope of the journal to include any historical study about information  
broadly conceived (as well as all the areas in which it is already  
publishing).  The intention is not to compete with IEEE Annals of the  
History of Computing; for example, articles that are primarily about  
computing technology are better sent there.  One way of understanding  
the scope of the journal is to say it is about the history of any  
topic that would be researched or taught in one of the  
interdisciplinary information schools.  Here, for example, is the list  
of research areas in my information school at the University of Texas  
at Austin:
Digital Libraries
Human-Computer Interaction & Information Architecture
Organization and Retrieval of Knowledge and Information
Preservation and Conservation of Physical and Digital Artifacts
Development, Management, and Evaluation of Collections and Services
Cultural Heritage Development and History and Management of the  
Cultural Record
Information Policy, Ethics, and Advocacy
User Behavior
Health Informatics
Information Work and Workers
Social Informatics and Digital Media
Appropriate topics that might interest you are *historical* topics  
related to cyberinfrastructure, information work and workers, the use  
of information (and information technology) in organizations,  
information as a concept, information (and IT and Internet and digital  
media) policy, and the social shaping and impact of information in  
societies.  But thre are many additional relevant topics.

The journal is available through JSTOR and Project MUSE, and it is  
indexed by a number of the leading indexers, including the Social  
Sciences Citation Index; so there is wide access by academics to  
papers published in the journal.

Typical articles are 6,000 to 8,000 words but we can accommodate  
shorter and longer papers as well.  I am looking for manuscripts now,  
to balance again the backlog of library history manuscripts in hand.   
People who can submit early in areas of information history other than  
library history will get expedited treatment for their manuscripts so  
that we can have a balance of topics appear in the journal in 2012.

The journal has been a leading journal in library history for many  
years, and I expect this to remain a top-quality journal.  I have  
recently broadened the editorial board to fit with the new scope.   
Some of you may know some of the new board members, somme of whom are  
Wolfgang Coy (Humboldt University, Berlin), Paul Edwards (University  
of Michigan), Tom Haigh (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Richard  
John (Columbia), Jennifer Light (Northwestern), Bonnie Mak (illinois),  
Tom Misa (Babbage Institute), and Fred Turner (Stanford).  The full  
editorial board list can be found at http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr/about/editors.php 
.

The web pages still reflect the journal in its current configuration.   
If you have any questions about whether manuscripts you are preparing  
might be suitable, please be in touch with me or with the managing  
editor, Heather Graham, who is copied on this message.  I look forward  
to receiving and publishing your materials.

Bring those manuscripts on!

Bill Aspray
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