Category Archives: From the editors

Call for an assistant editor

From the editors

Note: As of August 24, 2026, we have enough expressions of interest.

The Journal of Creative Library Practice (JCLP) is an open access LIS journal published by a small cadre of librarians who met through the Library Society of the World (https://librarysociety.info/how-to-join-the-lsw/). It is currently hosted on a WordPress website. While the journal operates on a shoestring budget, we aim to provide access to the widest possible readership at the lowest cost. Please read more at https://creativelibrarypractice.org/about/.

We are recruiting an assistant editor (or two) for our editorial board. This is a great opportunity to get experience in open access publishing.

This journal celebrates the practice of librarianship. It provides a place for librarians to document innovative approaches to our work, because we are not only creative in our workplaces, we also believe in sharing ideas. For every small discovery or big new project in a library, there are librarians elsewhere eager to learn from it. Most submitted content are peer-reviewed papers and non-peer-reviewed essays. JCLP has been committed to open access and CC-BY licensing since 2013.

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Call for Papers on Creative Anti-racist Practices and Resources

From the editors,

Black Lives Matter image The editors of the Journal of Creative Library Practice have been heartbroken over the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and so many more Black people over the years. We stand in solidarity with all people who demand change to the systems that perpetuate injustice. As librarians, we want to see change in our own institutions and practices – changes that will promote justice as we help our communities acknowledge and reject white supremacy and the violence it continues to inflict on Black communities.

Painting of George Floyd

To that end, we are issuing a special call for papers. You, our authors and our readers, have been and are continuing to develop creative anti-racist practices and resources in your libraries. By sharing our experiences, we hope to inspire creative ways to go beyond merely providing resources to actively engaging in anti-racism in libraries. We want to help you share your established or emerging anti-racist library practices. We want to help you amplify the voices of those who have been historically marginalized. Are there things that your library has done to promote an anti-racist praxis? Whether it’s in cataloging, technical services, instruction, events, or programming, what things are taking place to ensure equity and justice? Let’s share our creative practices. 

Black and white image of protestersWe welcome submissions of many kinds, from brief essays to peer reviewed articles. Please see our Instructions for Authors for more information about submitting your manuscripts.

 

 

 

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Please support the journal

From the editors,

We have started up a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for our help pay for our annual hosting fees. The journal editors have been paying annual fees for website hosting, which is $179/year. We are raising money to cover a 10 year span of the hosting.

https://www.gofundme.com/supportJCLP

While we have been operating on a shoestring budget, we would like to raise a modest amount of money from readers, authors, and other supporters of the Open Access movement to keep the journal sustainable for the next decade.

Please help us in our endeavors, and thank you very much for your support.

Joe Kraus

Please say hello to a new editor, Derrick Jefferson

From the editors

We would like to say welcome to a new editor for the journal.  We are very excited to have Derrick Jefferson join the editorial team.  If you would like to learn more about him, this post at American University is a great write-up. It covers some of his background and his passion for serving others.

Derrick Jefferson

This image is from http://www.american.edu/profiles/faculty/derrickj.cfm, and it is not CC-BY.

“Je Suis Charlie” and Our Commitment to Intellectual Freedom

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The JCPL editorial board strongly condemns the attacks on the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo and the murders of twelve individuals. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of the families touched by the tragedy. We also see in this public moment of outrage and public support for free speech an opportunity to confront the challenge inherent in supporting intellectual freedom and the underscore the responsibility of librarians to engage that challenge.

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