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<strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Papers:
</span></strong><em><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI)</span></b></em><strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">–Special
Issue</span></strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">"Engaging Disability: Social Science Perspectives on Information and Inclusion”
</span></strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (</span></i><a href="https://publish.lib.umd.edu/IJIDI"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#AC3832">IJIDI</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">)
invites submissions for a special issue focused on social scientific perspectives on information and disability inclusion and empowerment. We welcome full research papers that make a novel contribution to this area of research; this may be empirical, theory-based,
methodological, and/or practical in nature, and we encourage international perspectives and collaborations. We will also have a special section for student work, works in progress, opinion pieces, and professional reports.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Extended abstracts of up to 1,000 words for full research papers and up to 500 words for contributions to the special section are due by
<b>31 October 2018</b>. Authors will be notified of acceptance in mid-November, and final papers will be due by 1 March 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">We seek submissions from different disciplines and perspectives for this special issue of IJIDI. The goal of this special issue is to bring together researchers who focus specifically
on Engaging Disability. Topics and themes related to disability and information access may include, but will not be limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Physical, intellectual, and socio-cultural barriers and supports related to disability, information access, and inclusion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Analysis of international information policy considerations of disability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Hidden/invisible/latent disability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Engaging and including disability in libraries, museums, archives, and other information organizations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Disability and employment in LIS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Disability and higher education in LIS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Faculty and librarians with disabilities: Is technology inclusive or exclusive?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Accessibility and usability (broadly conceived)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Children and youth with disabilities in the context of information concepts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Intersectionality and disability: Exploring multiple identities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The disability culture: Information and technology issues
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Kim M. Thompson of the University of South Carolina will be guest editor for this issue, which is scheduled for publication in October 2019. Please contact
</span><a href="mailto:KimThompson@sc.edu"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">KimThompson@sc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> should you have any questions about this call.
IJIDI Author Guidelines are available at: </span><a href="https://publish.lib.umd.edu/IJIDI/about/submissions#authorGuidelines"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#AC3832">http://publish.lib.umd.edu/IJIDI/about/submissions#authorGuidelines</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Schedule: Call for Papers: October 2018<br>
Extended Abstracts due: <b>31 October 2018</b> (with notification of acceptance by mid-November 2018)<br>
Accepted Papers due: 1 March 2019<br>
Peer Review: March 2019<br>
Revised Papers due: 1 July 2019<br>
Publication: October 2019 (issue 4)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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