Voices of Experience

Submissions are intended to be experiential or reflective in nature, while also providing readers with some background information on methods or processes. Your intended audience should be both librarians interested in or currently doing research. These submissions undergo double blind peer review.  Author(s) are asked to use the Vancouver citation style and to use superscripts for all in-text citations.

Author(s) may wish to download the Submission Template.

Structured Abstract (300 words excluding headings below):

  • Background or Introduction:
  • Experience:
  • Discussion:
  • Takeaways:

Manuscript Structure (5000 words – excluding citations and appended materials):

  • Background or Introduction: Give the audience the “why” or purpose of your article.
  • Experience: Describe your experience. Your writing should be professional in quality, but it is acceptable to use first person in this section of the manuscript.
  • Discussion: Discuss what you have learned as a result of or by going through this experience.
  • Takeaways: Make a few suggestions or provide skills learned during/as a result of this experience for the reader.

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