<div dir="ltr"><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Call for submissions: Oregon Library Association Quarterly<span></span></span></p>

<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The summer issue of OLA Quarterly is about exploring critical librarianship (or, as you’ll sometimes see it described on social media as “critlib”).
This movement within the library profession seeks to acknowledge and question systemic
oppression in its various forms and to promote social justice within the
library world, in our workplaces, and for our students and patrons. There is a
lot of discussion brewing about this on social media, at conferences,
in our personal conversations, and in library literature. I know I would like
to learn more, and I hope you’ll join me in digging a little deeper into these
discussions. There are some very compelling ideas being talked about in the
library world about how to promote equity of access to information, the tools we
use to serve our patrons, and how we could be helping to raise up marginalized
voices in scholarship. Does this change how we look at our work?<span></span></span></p>

<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In some discussions online and elsewhere, the language used around
critical librarianship is heavily steeped in philosophy and theory, and it
sometimes feels inaccessible. From my early exploration of critlib, at its
core, what I hear is that it is simply trying to help foster critical thinking,
while at the same time trying to promote social awareness. I’d like to learn
more about this, and hope that you do as well. I would love to hear what
library workers in Oregon are doing or thinking about this, and how it might
inform how we serve. Do these ideas have different practical implications for
academic libraries, public libraries and beyond? Please consider writing a
piece for the OLAQ this summer, and make a lasting and
valuable contribution to this important topic.  </span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">  <span></span></span></p>

<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The summer issue guest editor is Elsa Loftis. She is the current
president of the Oregon Library Association and the Director of Library
Services at the Oregon College of Art and Craft.<span></span></span></p>

<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Would you like to write for the OLA Quarterly? The OLA Quarterly
is an official publication of the Oregon Library Association and is indexed by
library science related databases. It is a professional journal that showcases
the work of authors who work in Oregon Libraries.  If you write for the
OLA Quarterly, you will be a published writer!<span></span></span></p>

<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If you are interested in writing for OLA-Q, please submit your
ideas (title and a brief description) via email to the guest editor for review.
The guest editor will review submissions and respond to all authors in a timely
manner.<span></span></span></p>

<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please submit your ideas to Elsa Loftis at </span><a href="mailto:eloftis@ocac.edu"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">eloftis@ocac.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.  Please add "OLA-Q" in the subject
line of your email.<span></span></span></p>

<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><u>Deadlines:</u></b> all ideas for articles are due by <span class="gmail-m1981003673856997615aqj">July 15</span>. If your idea is selected, final
drafts of articles will be required by <span class="gmail-m1981003673856997615aqj">August 15</span>. The fall issue will be out
on <span class="gmail-m1981003673856997615aqj">September 15, 2017</span>.<span></span></span></p>

<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The article length averages 1,000 to 2,500 words. <span class="gmail-il">OLAQ</span> authors retain the rights to their articles, and some
have gone on to publish in magazines such as American Libraries.<span></span></span></p>

<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For more information, see: </span><a href="http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/author_instructions.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://commons.pacificu.edu/<span class="gmail-il">olaq</span>/author_instructions.html</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">To take a look at the current issue, see: </span><a href="http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol22/iss4/"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol22/iss4/</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sincerely,<span></span></span></p>

<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Elsa Loftis<span></span></span></p>

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employees in the State of Oregon globally. Authors retain the rights to their
work when published in the </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">OLAQ, so some past authors have gone on to have their
articles published in publications such as American Libraries
magazine.  OLAQ is indexed by
Library Literature & Information Science and Library, Information Science
& Technology Abstracts. Full text of the OLAQ is also available through HW Wilson's Library
Literature and Information Science Full Text and EBSCO Publishing's Library,
Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text.  It
is also part of the Digital Commons Network. </span><br></div>

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