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, [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask] 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: <[log in to unmask]> Professor Museum Studies Program "State identity in my opinion is football and pheasants." Governor Mike Johanns State of Nebraska February 16, 2003 List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance