My collaborators and I are very happy to announce this project, which has been brewing for a few months now. We’re launching a journal called Humanities Methods in Librarianship. In the next few months, we’ll put out a call for editors and peer reviewers, launch an instance of PKP’s Open Journal Systems, and ultimately put out our first call for papers.

The motivating idea behind this project is that most academic journals in librarianship take a strongly social science approach to our field, which does not suit all librarians or all library papers. Many of us are trained in the humanities, and we find ourselves having to shoehorn our papers into social science frameworks to get them published. This is not ideal. There should be a venue for addressing librarianship from humanities perspectives, and this journal intends to fill that need.

I’ll follow up here (and elsewhere) with our calls for editors and peer reviewers. We hope you’ll consider contributing in whatever way you’d like. In the meantime, if you’d like to reach out to the editors, you can find us at [email protected].

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