Journal of education for library and information science (JELIS) (ISSN: 0748-5786)

Description

The content of JELIS needs to reflect accurately the high quality research being conducted in the area of LIS education. To do this, JELIS needs to draw attention to the high-quality scholarship that is being conducted within LIS. To ensure JELIS is attracting and publishing this work necessitates aggressively seeking high-quality manuscripts through individual contact with potential authors; an active editorial board performing similar outreach to potential authors; conscientious selection of peer reviewers for articles; careful monitoring of the peer review process; and active editorial intervention to work with authors through multiple revisions to assist authors in developing their work.

The content of JELIS needs to reflect the full spectrum of “education for library and information science,” from library science, through library-and-information-science, to information science. In addition, it needs to include education at the undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, and continuing/lifelong levels. In the above paragraph, we noted the need to reach out aggressively to individual authors within our field; here we conclude that outreach is also needed to other communities that perform research in these subject areas and at these levels.

In addition to research articles, JELIS needs to include content aligned with the logical and functional needs of a community of educators. This means not only including reviews of books that are closely focused toward the content of the journal, but also thinking about expanding to include alerts about and evaluations of other tools of LIS education including course materials, pedagogical tools and techniques, and technologies for course delivery both inside the physical classroom and out.