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<p class="normal10"><span class="normal1char1"><i>Please excuse cross-posting</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="normal10"><span class="normal1char1"><b><i>Public Libraries as Social Innovation Hubs: How Libraries Transform Communities</i></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="normal10">Edited by John Carlo Bertot and Ursula Gorham<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="normal2">Communities are increasingly facing a number of challenges in areas of economic development, poverty, education, health & wellness, sustainability, transportation, environment, broadband and technology infrastructure, digital readiness, and
civic engagement, to name some. Efforts to raise awareness about these challenges at the international level include the United Nations’ recently released
<a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300">Sustainable Development Agenda</a>, articulating 17 goals to
<a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld">shape global action</a> “for people, planet, and prosperity,” the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 11
<a href="http://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs/geneva/official/poa.html#c1">Action Lines</a>, and the International Federation of Library Association’s (IFLA)
<a href="http://www.lyondeclaration.org/">Lyon Declaration</a> on Access to Information and Development.
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<p class="normal2">As part of the <a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/series/ail">Advances in Librarianship</a> series, this book seeks chapters at the intersection of innovation, community challenges, sustainable development, and public libraries. Topics
can include, but are not limited to how public libraries:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Can serve as critical community access points to individual and community transformation in key challenge areas such as health & wellness, economic development, poverty, environment, civic engagement, education, and other areas. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Create, combine, and deliver innovative services and resources (e.g., food access and nutrition programs in undernourished communities and communities that lack access to health foods, design and prototyping labs, citizen science enablers, open data and analytics
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Foster community innovation through promoting and facilitating entrepreneurship, small business development, and economic development.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Engage in strategic partnerships across sectors and serve as a unifying community platform for social innovation. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Promote inclusion, equity, and justice through access to information, learning, information and communications technologies (ICTs), and opportunity particularly to underserved or unserved populations.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="normal2">The book welcomes chapters that include case studies, empirical studies, and best practices from around the world. Please direct questions and submissions to:
<a href="mailto:libinnovation@gmail.com">libinnovation@gmail.com</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="normal1"><b>Important Dates:</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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March 1, 2016: Submission of 1,000 word chapter proposal <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
April 1, 2016: Notification of chapter acceptance to authors<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
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<p class="normal1"> <b>About the Editors</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">John Carlo Bertot is Professor and co-director of the Information Policy & Access Center (iPAC) in the University of Maryland College Park iSchool. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Ursula Gorham, Ph.D., J.D., is a Lecturer in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. <o:p></o:p></p>
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Email: </span><u><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="applewebdata://BCB57281-51DC-4941-8002-4D53BCEF3FAC/jbertot@umd.edu">jbertot@umd.edu</a><br>
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