Here is the second proposal from Dariush. It would give the Editorial Board more involvement, and help make LPP more visible and accessible to more people. Gail and I are very enthusiastic about this idea and the proposal to recruit international LIS faculty as reviewers and authors.

We think that LPP should form a three layer editorial board. You and Gail form the highest level in editorial activities and rename yourself as "Chief Editors". The current "Editorial Board" should be renamed to "Editorial Advisory Board" in order to shape the second class of editors that advise chief editors both in accepting or rejecting received articles and offering new professionals for membership in editorial board. The third level that should be named "International Editorial Board" comprises of any volunteer reviewer that is interested in serving the journal freely. A volunteer can send his/her request regarding the membership + a copy of his/her resume to the chief editors and you will have the authority to accept or reject the application. Through adopting such a policy, the LPP will be more introduced and identified throughout the world, would attract more authors and reviewers to have scientific collaboration with the journal, will receive more qualitative submissions from students, practitioners, and tutors, and finally will play a more important role in scientific
development of the human. How do you see this proposal?

We would like to hear thoughts and ideas from Board members about this proposal.

Hello, Everyone!

I'd like to revive our LPP Editorial Board blog with two very interesting things to discuss. Dariush Alimohammadi wrote to me this week to suggest that LPP reach out to LIS schools outside North America to recruit faculty there as peer reviewers and authors. Here is Dariush's suggestion:

Also, we think that some type of scientific collaboration should be established between the LPP editorial board and LIS Departments/Schools all over the world. Through sending regular emails, LPP should try to encourage LIS and other adjunct faculties to submit their new writings and to be ready for reviewing as a volunteer.

Gail and I are very enthusiastic about this idea and would like to hear the Board's thoughts and reactions. I would also like to have suggestions about where to start in compiling a list of LIS Schools, i.e., which region or country, which schools are largest or most active, etc.

I am using Google Reader to subscribe to an RSS feed for this blog, so I will easily know when someone has posted.

I will post Dariush's second proposal in a separate message.