Greetings!

*Information Technology and Libraries
<https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital>** (ITAL)*, the quarterly
open-access journal published by ALA’s Core: Leadership, Infrastructure,
Futures division, is looking for contributions to its newly-established
”From the Field” column for the December 2024, March 2025, and June 2025
issues. This column will highlight a technology-based project, practice, or
innovation from any library in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives,
Museums) community. Proposals are due by September 20, 2024.



Topics could include:

   - Community engagement through technology
   - Virtual programming, education, and learning
   - Technology that expands diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility
   - Open source software
   - Digital libraries
   - Digital archiving and preservation
   - Web usability and UX, design thinking, design systems
   - Innovations in materials checkout or handling
   - Privacy and cyber-security
   - Virtual and augmented reality
   - Artificial intelligence, NLP, LLMs
   - Data science and analytics
   - Geographic information systems and mapping
   - Self-service technology
   - Anything else related to GLAM institutions and innovations in
   technology



To propose a topic, use this form <https://forms.gle/46RdB7azB4jipYg9A>,
which will ask you for four pieces of information:

   - Your email address;
   - Your name;
   - A brief (fewer than 250 words) summary of your proposed column that
   describes your library, the technology you wish to write about, and the
   impact that your project or innovation had on library resources or
   services;
   - The quarterly issue(s) whose deadlines to which you can commit;



Columns are in the 1,000-1,500 word range and may include illustrations.
These will not be research articles but are meant to share practical
experience with technology development or uses within the library.



Since this is a non-peer-reviewed column, there is also an opportunity to
engage in new ways or different formats, so creative submissions will also
be considered. (Examples: comics, zines, videos, autoethnography, case
studies, white papers, policy documents, interviews, reports, or other
pieces commonly referred to as "grey literature.") If you would like your
column to be in a format that differs from a standard editorial essay,
please explain in your proposal.

*Those who are interested in being an author for this column should submit
a brief proposal / abstract that outlines the topic to be covered.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words. Please submit your proposals
via this form <https://forms.gle/46RdB7azB4jipYg9A> no later than September
20, 2024.*



Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by September 27, 2024 with
the submission deadline for our quarterly issues on the first of December,
March, and June quarterly issues. Completed column submissions should be
roughly 1500-2000 words.



Please contact Cindi Blyberg, Guest Editor, at [log in to unmask] with
any questions. Please forward to any colleagues who may be interested.
Thank you!