Book Chapter Invitation

NEW HORIZONS OF LIBRARIANSHIP IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

Sir/Madam,
We are highly privileged to inform LIS fraternity (national and international) that we are
planning to publish a peer-reviewed edited book on New Horizons of Librarianship in
Knowledge Society (by a reputed publisher with ISBN). We take this opportunity to extend our
invitation to all library and information science professionals, academicians and researchers to
contribute their original and significant research papers, policy papers, theoretical papers, case
studies up to national / international levels related to the title and areas highlighted for the
edited book. The areas are indicative and not exhaustive in coverage. The contributor can
include any other topic falling under the theme of the book title. Please note that only principal
author or corresponding author will get a free copy of the edited volume.

Collection Development & Management in Emerging and Innovative Technology

Digital Environment Applications in Libraries
Best Policies and Practices: Learning Research Trends in Library and Information
Lessons in Collection Development Science
Library Consortia: Challenges and Future Technology Disaster and Recovery
Perspectives in Digital Environment Planning/Management
Digital Paradigm: Access, Ownership, and Mobile, Web and Semantic Technology
Control Application in Libraries
Digital Resources: Preservation, Search Strategies, Techniques in Intelligent
Management, and Cultivation Information Retrieval
Digital Collections: Redefining Policies, Library Security Tools, Technologies, and
Negotiation Skills, Best Practices in License implementations
Agreement Open Access: New Trends in Publishing
Digital Repositories: Development, Scholarly Communications
Preservation, and Challenges Research Tools, Techniques, and
Re-envision of Learning/Library Spaces in Methodologies
Changing Perspectives Social Media, Cloud Computing
Designing of Library Spaces as a Learning Applications in Libraries
Commons Content Management Systems
Library Spaces and Services: User Research Data Management
Requirement in New Generation Discovery and Remote Access Tools and
Dramatic Redesigns of Existing Spaces Services in Libraries
Maker Spaces and Maker Movement in Plagiarism Tools, IPR and Copyright in the
Library Spaces Digital Age

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 Open Access Publishing: Creative Common Human Resource Development and
License Management in Digital Environment
Open Source Software Application in Skill Development and Competency
Libraries Management
Digital Rights Management Digital Governance: Role of Libraries
Analytics/Big Data Opportunities for Modern Librarianship and Ethics
Library Professionals Role of Librarian and Libraries in
E-Learning, Open Educational Resources Institutional Rankings
(OERs) Challenges in Managing Modern Libraries
Library Outreach, Marketing, and Advocacy Performance Measurement and
in Digital Age Competitiveness
Green Library and Smart Library Ownership, Partnership, and
Web Learning, MOOC Collaborations of Libraries in Digital
Electronic Vs Print and Online Book Stores Environment
Vs Traditional Book Shops
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Review process
All papers are subject to blind peer review by at least two referees. No article will be
selected for publication without peer-review process.
Copyright
Articles submitted to the edited book should not have been published before in their
current or substantially similar form, or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
About references, always attribute clearly using either indented text or quote marks as well as
making use of the preferred APA style of formatting. Authors submitting articles for
publication warrant that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright and will
indemnify the publisher against any breach of such warranty. For ease of dissemination and to
ensure proper policing of use, papers and contributions become the legal copyright of the
editors unless otherwise agreed. The editors may make use of anti-plagiarism software for
checking the originality of submissions received.
Permissions
Prior to article submission, authors should clear permission to use any content that has not
been created by them. Failure to do so may lead to exclusion from publication. When
reproducing tables, figures or excerpts (of more than 200 words) from another source, it is
expected that:
1. Authors obtain the necessary written permission in advance from any third party owners
of copyright for the use in print and electronic formats of any of their text, illustrations,
graphics, or other material, in their manuscript. Permission must also be cleared for
any minor adaptations of any work not created by them.
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 2. If an author adapts significantly any material, the author must inform the copyright
holder of the original work.
3. Authors obtain any proof of consent statements.
4. Authors must always acknowledge the source in figure captions and refer to the source
in the reference list.
5. Authors should not assume that any content which is freely available on the web is free
to use. Authors should check the website for details of the copyright holder to seek
permission for re-use.
Final submission
Authors should note that proofs are not supplied prior to publication. The manuscript will
be considered to be the definitive version of the article. The author must ensure that it is
complete, grammatically correct and without spelling or typographical errors. Before
submitting, authors should check their submission completeness using the following
manuscripts requirements.
Manuscript Requirements
Please prepare your manuscript before submission, using the following guidelines:

Format MS Word document (A4 size), single spaced, 1 inch margin from each
side, pages should be numbered consecutively.
Language Manuscripts will be entertained only in English language and language
editing is the responsibility of the authors.
Article Length Articles should be between 3500 to 10000 words in length (6-15 pages)
including text, references, and appendices.
Title Page Content Title Page should have following contents:
Title of the Paper
Author's Detail
Acknowledgements
Author (s) Biographies
Structured Abstract
Keywords (maximum up to 4 keywords)
Article Classification

Author's Detail Details should be supplied on the Article Title Page including:
Full name of each author
Affiliation of each author, at time research was completed
Where more than one author has contributed to the article, details
of who should be contacted for correspondence

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 E-mail address of the corresponding author

Structured Author(s) must supply a structured abstract (max. 300 words) on the
Abstract Title Page which should include following segments:
Purpose
Design/methodology/approach
Findings
Originality/value

Article Categorize your paper on the Article Title Page, under one of these
Classification classifications:
Research paper
Viewpoint
Technical paper
Conceptual paper
Case study
Literature review
General review

Headings Headings must be concise, with a clear indication of the distinction

between the hierarchies of headings.
Notes/Endnotes Notes or Endnotes should be used only if absolutely necessary and must
be identified in the text by consecutive numbers, enclosed in square
brackets and listed at the end of the article.
Research Funding Authors must declare all sources of external research funding in their
article and a statement to this effect should appear in the
acknowledgements section.
Figures All Figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, web pages/screenshots, and
photographic images) should be submitted in electronic form.
All Figures should be of high quality, legible and numbered
consecutively with Arabic numerals.

Tables Tables should be typed and included in the main body of the article.
The position of each table should be clearly labeled in the body text of
article.
References References to other publications must be in APA style (examples
mentioned below are with some modifications in APA style) and
carefully checked for completeness, accuracy and consistency. You

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 should cite publications in the text: (Singh, 2017) using the first named
author's name or (Singh & Sharma, 2016) citing both names of two,
and (Gupta et al., 2012), when there are more than three authors. At
the end of the paper a reference list in alphabetical order should be
supplied.
For books Surname, Initials. (Year). Title of Book. Place: Publisher.
e.g. Talevski, N. (1998). The Unofficial Encyclopedia of the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame. Westport: Greenwood Press.
For book chapters Surname, Initials. (Year). Chapter title. In Editor's Surname, Initials, Title
of Book (pages). Place of publication: Publisher.
e.g. Barton, D. (2002). Nabokov and the Sixties. In H. J. Larmour (Ed.),
Discourse and Ideology in Nabokovs Prose (pp. 308-311). London:
Routledge
For published Surname, Initials. (Year). Title of paper. In Surname, Initials (Ed.), Title of
conference published proceeding with theme of conference (pages). Place: Publisher.
proceedings Gibson, C. C. (2005). In S. Allsop (Ed.) Impact of the larger social
context on the distance learner. International Council for Distance
Education: One world many voices: Quality in open and distance
learning (pp. 279-282). Chicago: Milton Keynes.
For encyclopedia Title of Encyclopedia. (Year). Title of article. Volume, edition. Place of
entries publication: Publisher. (pages).
(with no author or e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica. (1926). Psychology of culture contact. Vol.
editor) 1, 13th ed. New York: London and New York. pp. 765-771.

For Journals Surname, Initials. (Year). Title of article. Journal Name. Volume
(number), pages.
Craner, Paul M. (1991). New Tool for an Ancient Art: The Computer
and Music. Computers and the Humanities, 25 (2), 303-313.
For electronic If available online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the
resources reference, as well as a date that the resource was accessed.

Online books e.g. Austen, J. (1996). Pride and Prejudice. Retrieved February 17, 2013,
from http://www.pembereley.Com/janeinfo/pridrej.html

Online journals e.g. Novak, William J. (2008). The Myth of the Weak American State.

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 American Historical Review, 113,752772. Retrieved July 24, 2013,
from doi:10.1086/ahr.113.3.752

Online databases e.g. Butler, Darell L., & Sellborm, Martin (2002). Barriers to Adopting
Technology for Teaching and Learning. Educause Quarterly, 25 (2),
25-27. Edcause. Retrieved on September 29, 2013, from,
http://www.edcause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm 0223.pdf

Important Dates

Submission of full paper : 25th May, 2017

Finalization of review process : 20th June, 2017
Notification of acceptance of paper with comments to the authors : 25th June, 2017
Final intimation/acceptance to the authors : 05th July, 2017
Copyright submission by the authors : 10th July, 2017
Submit your article
The soft copy of the article may be submitted to bkeditors17@gmail.com. Please note that only
soft copy of the article in word format will be accepted.
Contact / Inquiries / Editors
We do hope you will feel able to respond positively to this invitation, and we look forward to hearing
from you.

MR. AMIT KUMAR DR. VINOD KUMAR SINGH

Assistant Professor Assistant Librarian & In-Charge
Department of Library & Information Science Central Library
Mizoram University Central University of Haryana
Aizawl - 796004 (Mizoram) Mahendergarh - 123031 (Haryana)
Mob: 8257036641 Mob: 8010703366
Email: amit85kr@gmail.com Email: vikusi@gmail.com

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