AARL
AARL publishes reviews of books and other resources of interest to current practitioners in academic and research libraries, and to educators in librarianship.
If you are interested in reviewing titles for AARL, or would like to suggest a title for review, please email the Reviews Editor, David Wells, aarl.reviews@alia.org.au.nospam . If you have not previously contributed to AARL, please include a brief (maximum one page) c.v. indicating relevant interests and expertise.
GUIDELINES FOR BOOK REVIEWERS
In brief: we generally publish reviews of around 600 words, andask that you send us your review within six weeks.
The following guidelines are presented with a view to minimising editorial intervention, rather than telling you how to perform a task with which you are probably familiar.
- The length should be in the range 500-600 words unless a review article is intended, in which case please let us know so that space can be allowed for it.
- As a reviewer, you need to consider:
- what is the author's aim and to what extent has it been achieved?
- who is the author and what is his or her background?
- for whom is the work intended?
- how does this work compare to others covering similar ground?
The editors prefer you to be provocative rather than bland (but not actionable, please).
- The citation heading the review should take the form:
Book title: all bold, by Author and Author/edited by Author, 2nd edn, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2003, xli + 345 pp., US$28.95 (paperback, ISBN 978-1-12345-678-0
- Names of publications mentioned should be in italics or underlined, and single quotation marks should be used.
- Your name, affiliation and email address should appear at the end of your review in the form:
Author Name
Affiliation
name@email.address
(c) year, Author Name
- Please email your review to aarl.reviews@alia.org.au.nospam
- The editors reserve the right to make changes to the review, although we anticipate that these would apply to minor matters of style rather than content.
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