Manuscript submission deadlines…
February 3rd, 2010
Manuscript submission deadlines for volume 4 are as follows…
4(1): March 15, 2010
4(2): August 15, 2010
As ever, CIL accepts manuscripts on an ongoing basis. Cheers!
Technical problems resolved…
February 1st, 2010
The CIL site experienced a few technical difficulties during the past three weeks, which had an impact on login procedures and automated email message functionality. These problems are now resolved. We have upgraded to the most recent version of OJS, and we switched to the web hosting service, DreamHost (which is carbon-neutral!).
Cheers to all!
Update on technical difficulties…
January 19th, 2010
CIL continues to experience technical difficulties, which is having an impact on login functions and automated email messaging. We are upgrading the OJS and migrating to a new server, and we expect this process to take a few days. For prospective authors, please wait until we announce that the site has been fully restored before submitting manuscripts. Cheers!
Editors
Technical difficulties
January 17th, 2010
CIL is currently experiencing technical difficulties with user login functions and automated email messaging. Other functions may be impacted as well. We are working on the problem now, and hope to have it resolved ASAP.
We will post another announcement when we are all patched up 
Thanks for your patience.
Updates from all over
December 8th, 2009
It has been a while since we posted anything new to the blog, but we felt a few quick updates were in order:
- If you haven’t seen it already, a new issue (Vol 3, Iss 1) was just published
- An anonymous donor very generously contributed $25 to our ongoing efforts — THANK YOU!
- Our Theme Issue on assessment is being finished up now with an anticipated January publication date
- We have over 90 fans on our Facebook page! Yay!
Our thanks go out for everyone’s continued support for the journal, and we wish you all a very happy holiday season!
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Now playing: Ingrid Michaelson – The Way I Am
via FoxyTunes
President proclaims National IL Awareness Month…
October 4th, 2009
October 1, 2009
President Obama proclaimed October 2009 as National Information Literacy Month. Read the full proclamation from the White House Press Office: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Presidential-Proclamation-National-Information-Literacy-Awareness-Month/
Our thanks to the ACRL Instruction Section
July 23rd, 2009
Chris and I would very much like to thank the members of the ACRL Instruction Section for the honor bestowed upon the journal early last week at the ALA annual meeting in Chicago.
We were both fortunate enough to be able to make the trip to accept this award, which reads:
Association of College and Research Libraries
A Division of the American Library Association
ACRL Instruction Section
Recognizes
Stewart Brower and Christopher Hollister
for launching
Communications in Information Literacy,
the first born-digital, open-access peer reviewed journal
devoted entirely to information literacy.
July 12, 2009
We are truly, humbly honored by this recognition, and we thank the ACRL for their very generous consideration.
First endowed chair in information literacy named
June 8th, 2009
The journal would like to extend its congratulations to Dr. Sharon Weiner, currently dean of library services at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, for being appointed the W. Wayne Booker Endowed Chair in Information Literacy in Purdue Libraries, starting next month. Details here.
Added to JURN
May 17th, 2009
CIL has been added to another index: http://www.jurn.org/
JURN indexes open access titles in the arts and humanities, although their list also appears to include a few social sciences titles as well. Over 2400 titles have been indexed, and they are using the highly-intuitive Google Custom Search interface. Lots of details about the service, which launched earlier this year, can be found on their blog.
We thank JURN’s admins for including us!
(P.S. For those keeping score at home, here’s a partial listing of where we know CIL is currently indexed: EBSCO, WilsonWeb, Google Scholar, DOAJ, and now JURN. The editors have been contacted about inclusion in ProQuest, but have yet to recieve confirmation of CIL being indexed. Stay tuned!!)
Big response…
May 2nd, 2009
Hi all…
The May 1 deadline for theme issue manuscripts has come and gone. I am pleased to report that CIL received an enormous response to its call for manuscripts. Guest editors, Sarah McCord and Terry Taylor, are working hard to develop this issue, which will include refereed feature articles, invited papers, and editorials, all on the topic of information literacy assessment. Cheers to all!
Chris Hollister and Stewart Brower, Editors