Gender issues are capturing people’s attentions these days. One aspect of such attention is visual. How does the visual aspect of gender impact library and information science?

Description

Gender issues are capturing people’s attentions these days. One aspect of such attention is visual. How does the visual aspect of gender impact LIS? Possible gendered subtopics include, among others:

• Cataloging visual resources
• Visual literacy
• Picture books
• Media literacy visual aspects
• Visual fake news and LIS: information professionals’ roles
• Image editing: process, discernment, implications
• Historical aspects (e.g., visually “reading” and interpreting historical documents with a gender frame)
• Primary sources
• LIS instruction
• Visual implications for persons with visual impairments

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Every manuscript should be clearly marked as intended for this special issue. All papers will go through the Open Information Science’s high standards, quick, fair and comprehensive peer-review procedure. Instructions for authors are available here. In case of any questions, please contact Guest Editor (Lesley.Farmer@csulb.edu) or Managing Editor (katarzyna.grzegorek@degruyteropen.com).

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The deadline is September 1th 2018.

Guest editor

• Dr. Lesley S. J. Farmer, professor, California State University