[NHCOLL-L:2484] "Collections" now available

[Hugh H. Genoways]

Dear Colleagues:

The new professional journal "Collections: A Journal for Museum and
Archives Professionals" is now available.  Volume 1, nos. 1 and 2 (see
Table of Contents below)can now be order from AltaMira Press.
Subscriptions can be ordered by visiting our website at
http://www.altamirapress.com/RLA/journals/Collections/Index.shtml.  Volume
1, number 3 is scheduled to appear next February (Table of Contents below).

We are actively soliciting manuscripts from museum and archives
professionals and their students.  Because COLLECTIONS is a quarterly
journal, submission is open.  We will receive and accept/reject manuscripts
on a continuous basis.  I have also attached below our Instructions for
Authors to help you in preparation of a manuscript.

Sincerely,
Hugh H. Genoways
Editor




C O LLECTIONS: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals
volume 1  number 1  summer 2004


OPINIONS
The Future of Natural History Collections
	John E. Heyning

A Keeper of Treasures
	Karen J. Underhill

ARTICLES
Archives and Museums: Balance and Development in Presidential Libraries
	Susannah Benedetti

Critical Concepts Concerning Non-Living Collections
	Stephen L. Williams

Collecting Theories: Mexican-American Archives at the University of Texas,
Benson Latin American Collection       (1974-2003)
	Maria E. Gonzalez

The Maverick Collector: The Method in the Madness of Peggy Guggenheim
	Emma Acker

BOOK REVIEW
Liberating Culture: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Museums, Curation, and
Heritage Preservation, by     Christina Kreps
	A. Elizabeth Moser

DIGITIZING AND IMAGING REVIEW
The Digital Phenomenon
	Jill M. Koelling




C O LLECTIONS: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals
volume 1  number 2  FALL 2004

OPINION
Drama and Melodrama
	Kimberly Louagie

ARTICLES
The Willa Cather Collections: Interpretation, Genealogy, and History
	Mary Ellen Ducey and Carmella Orosco

Controlling  Relative Humidy Levels in Collection Microenvironments using
Lithium Chloride Solutions
	Stephen L. Williams and Sarah R. Beyer

"Breathing New Life into Stuffed Animals:" The Society of American
Taxidermists, 1880-1885
	Mary Anne Andrei

BOOK REVIEWS
 Airborne Pollutants in Museums, Galleries, and Archives: Risk Assessment,
Control Strategies, and Preservation 		   Management, by Jean
Tétreault.
	Catherine Sease

Curating Archaeological Collections: From the Field to the Repository, by
Lynne S. Sullivan and S. Terry Childs.
	Mary Adair

DIGITIZING AND IMAGING REVIEW
The Maine Memory Network
	Jill M. Koelling



TO APPEAR IN FEBRUARY 2005

C O LLECTIONS A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals
volume 1 number 3 February 2005


OPINION
221 Note to Self:Remember the Archives
Cary Majewicz


ARTICLES
Improving Collection Maintenance Through Innovation: Bar-Code Labeling to
Track Specimens in the Processing    Stream
	Gábor R.Rácz,and William L.Gannon

Digital Futures II:Museum Collections,Documentation,and Shifting Knowledge
Paradigms
	Fiona Cameron

Lydia Sada de González: A Collector in an Emerging Monterrey Art
	María de Jesus González

Assessing Collection Resources and Preservation Issues in Argentinean
Museums:A Model Survey and Evaluation of
   New World Primate Collections
	R.A.Martinez, M.Alvarez, M.S.Ascunce, I.Avila,and M.Mudry


BOOK REVIEWS
Museum Archives: An Introduction, edited by Deborah Wythe
	Paul Eisloeffel

Caring for American Indian Objects: A Practical and Cultural Guide, edited
by Sherelyn Ogden
	Nicolette B.Meister



INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals is a refereed
quarterly journal.  Submitted manuscripts will undergo blind peer review.
Anonymous critiques are forwarded to the author.  Revision is frequently
required before an article is accepted for publication.  Digitizing project
reviews, website reviews, and book reviews are not peer reviewed but will
be edited.

Manuscripts submitted to Collections should not be under consideration by
any other publishers, nor may the manuscripts have been previously
published elsewhere.  If a manuscript is based on a lecture, reading, or
talk, specific details should accompany the submission.  There are no set
submission deadlines.  As a quarterly journal Collections will continually
receive and process manuscripts.

We request manuscripts be submitted via e-mail to Hugh H. Genoways, editor,
hgenoways1 at unl.edu.  The file should be saved from Word in Rich Text Format
(RTF), without additional document formatting, sent as an attachment to
your e-mail message.  Please provide mailing addresses (including street
address, telephone, fax, and e-mail) as well as title and institutional
affiliation for each author.

Manuscript preparation, styles, and format:
	*  Preferred length of the article is 15 to 25 double-spaced pages.
Manuscripts that exceed this limit 	                 will be returned
without review.
	*  Headers and footers in the manuscript file should be limited to
page numbers only.  Number every           page sequentially from 1 through
the last page, including literature cited, endnotes, appendices, and
          figure legends.
	*  Use 1-inch margins on all sides.
	*  Do not right justify your margins, left justify only.
	*  Do not change font sizes (use 12-point font) or styles in
various parts of the manuscript.  Stick to           one font throughout.
Times New Roman is the preferred font.
	*  Please do not use the automatic numbering or bullet list
utilities in your word-processing program.            Type the numbers and
bullets in by hand.  The automatic utilities do not survive the transfer to
          composition.
	*  Any images, tables, figures, or other graphics that accompany
the manuscript should be saved           separately, one graphic each, as
individual additional files, and sent as attachments to your e-mail
          message.
	*  Digital images should be saved as TIFF files at 300 dpi with a
final image size of approximately 5           inches.
	*  Short captions should be included for each figure or table,
along with appropriate credits.  It is the           authors'
responsibility to obtain necessary permission for use of copyrighted
material.
	*  Please do not embed graphic elements, images, or figures in the
main body of the text.  Simply           indicate their approximate
placement in the text (i.e., "place Figure 1 about here").
	*  Photographic images that are purely illustrative (not essential
to understanding the text) are           welcome and encouraged, but it is
not necessary that they accompany the initial submission.  Please
          hold these until notice of the manuscript's acceptance is sent.
	*  Please use "A" headers as necessary to indicate the sections of
your manuscript.  To further aid the           reader and to make the
manuscript's organization apparent, each section can be further divided
into           subsections by "B" subheads and "C" subheads as necessary.
Please refer to the journal Curator for           styles of the headers and
for examples of how they are used to hierarchically organize the
          manuscript.
	*  Endnotes are acceptable, but not footnotes.  Please place all
endnotes at the end of the article after the                references and
before any appendices.
	*  We may request hard copies and computer diskettes of manuscripts
that are accepted for publication           at the time that notice of
acceptance is sent.
	*  In writing for Collections, authors should define technical
terms, avoid jargon, and support general             statements with
details or references.  References, endnotes, and appendices should follow
the body of                    the article.
	*  An abstract of no more than 150 words must accompany the
manuscript.
	*  Please follow the standards in the Chicago Manual of Style
(author date) for references and citations.  	   Some examples of which
follow here:
                                Falk, J. H., and L. D. Dierking.  1992.
The Museum Experience. Washington, D. C.:                      Whalesback
Books.
              Kreinberg, N.  1989.  The practice of equity. Peabody Journal
of Education 66 (2): 127-146.
              August, P. V.  1979.  Distress calls in Artibeus jamaicensis:
Ecology and evolutionary               implications. In Vertebrate Ecology
in the Northern Neotropics, ed. J. F. Eisenberg,               Washington,
D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
	*  Examples of the format for text citations include:
                   "...young girls in the museum environment (Cone and
Kendall 1978)."
                               "... were supported by the later studies of
Rosenfeld (1980)."

Please direct questions, correspondence, and submissions to:
Hugh H. Genoways
Editor, Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archive Professionals
W436 Nebraska Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0514
hgenoways1 at unl.edu

Hugh H. Genoways
University of Nebraska State Museum
W436 Nebraska Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0514

Telephone: 402-472-2012
FAX: 402-472-8949

E-mail: <hgenoways1 at unl.edu>

Professor
Museum Studies Program


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