Submission Guidelines

The deadlines for submissions are as follows:

For the January - April issue: February 15

For the June - August issue: June 15

For the September - December issue: October 15 

Please send all submissions to abqla.bulletin@gmail.com

Submission Guidelines

The ABQLA Bulletin accepts submissions of book reviews, opinion pieces on library-related issues, emerging technologies, suggested readings, websites, and any other topics relevant to libraries in Quebec.

Articles will appear in both the print and online versions of the ABQLA Bulletin. Note that some items might be edited for length for inclusion in the print publication.

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Features, reports, announcements, press releases…

• Submit documents as e-mail attachments.
• Documents should be in Word (.rtf, .doc, .docx) or Google Documents format
• Please contact the editors before submitting articles that have more than 750 words.
• Short announcements are always welcome; we want to promote you to your peers. No matter how short your submission is, put it in an attached document.
• Use Times or Times New Roman 12 point font, single spaced.

If you need to make a change to a submission, please re-submit the entire document, with your revisions: clearly indicated in the Track Changes/editing feature in Word OR clearly highlighted OR in bold.

PHOTOS

• Submit your photos as JPGs.
• Scan size should be at 300 dpi, necessary for high-quality reproduction.
• Clearly name your photos. Do not give them coded names that only you or your camera would recognize. If you are submitting photos to go along with an article, please give them all related names. For example, an article you have named ‘Xlibrary Tour’ has 2 accompanying photos. Titling them ‘Xlibrary Tour1’ and ‘Xlibrary Tour2.' will help when we are putting everything together.
• Fully identify the subject matter in the photos. In the body of your e-mail, clearly identify each photo with the name you have given it, provide the full names of everyone in the picture, and the name of the person who took the picture. Please include all other relevant information: date, place, etc.

CONTENT

• It is the responsibility of each section President to submit or assign a section member to submit a report on section activities and upcoming events. Accompanying photos are strongly encouraged. 
• If there are no section activities to report on, an article on a current topic of interest relevant to that section is to be submitted. These non-event-related submissions may include discussion of a recent hot topic in the field, resources for librarians, suggested reading, etc.
• We want to hear from all members, not just section heads! Opinion pieces on library-related issues, emerging technologies, suggested readings, websites… bring it on!

ADVERTISEMENTS

Ads should be submitted as a PDF and meet the specifications for size and price; specs can be e-mailed on request.

BOOK REVIEWS: see guidelines here

DEADLINES

We are particularly pleased with articles, pictures, and ads that are submitted on time. Like you, we volunteers, and we have deadlines, too. Please respect our deadlines. 

CONTACT

Please send all submissions to abqla.bulletin@gmail.com.

We acknowledge receipt of submissions. If you do not hear from us within a respectable time span, please contact us through the Executive Secretary at abqla@abqla.qc.ca.

Thank you for your submissions to the Bulletin!