Journal of Irresponsible Librarianship

Pricing Policy

JIL uses advanced (so advanced nobody else knows about it) web technology to charge for subscriptions to this journal.

Librarians/Information Professionals who have had a reference question related breakdown will find $10.00 per article read transferred to their bank accounts.

Current Information Professionals --- no charge

MS/Computer types will find $300 deducted automatically from their bank accounts. We won't tell you how we're gonna do it, but we know who you are.

Those who believe libraries and librarians are not needed in the Information Age will find that their bank account has been emptied and a donation made in their names to their local public libraries. Note: If you believe that you have been charged in error, we will require a sworn affa davit from your local public librarian attesting to your character.

Mission Statement

The journal recognized the need for library and information professionals to publish for the following reasons:

1. Tenure and promotion
2. just because we are important
3. those people using the libraries just don't know what they are doing
4. love to hear ourselves talk but don't want to listed to others this way we can spread our ideas without having to listen ourselves.

JIL provides a vehicle for the dissemination of information or ideas in the field of libraianship that don't quite make the cut into high quality journals and often gives us a good laugh.

Submission Guidelines

Articles for JIL should (preferable) be submitted in an electronic web ready form. JIL will also accept:

• typed manuscript on 8.5 by 11' paper provided the margins meet the following are 1" on left side, 1.25" on the right, 1.3" on top and 1.4" on the bottom, page numbers are .75" from the top right corner, typeface should be Times New Roman, 10 pt., with the Title in 14pt bold.
• purple crayon on brown paper bag from information professtionals with a reference question related breakdown
• papers written on the back of outdated cards from defunct library card catalogs
• anything that can be legally sent though the U.S. Post office, as long as it makes the editorial board laugh.

Please include your name, position, and address. Requests for anonymity will be considered.

Peer Review Process

In order to meet our mission statement goals of providing an opportunity for those wishing to publish to meet requirements for tenure & promotion, JIL has a rigorous three step peer review process

1. manages to arrive in the hands of a member of the JIL editorial board
2. must either a.) seem like such drivel as to never get published in a regular more established library journal or b.) have at least some entertainment value
3. Paper copy will be placed on our 4' by 4' decision board . Those we manage to hit with a dart at least once will be published.

History and Background of the Journal

JIL had its inception at a reception held at the Pacific Science Center during the 1997 SLA conference in Seattle, WA. After a few drinks, the discussion turned to presentations heard earlier the day. The general consensus was the only reason for the incredibly boring and useless talk we had sat through was the need of the presenter to add it to his C.V. for tenure. This lead to a discussion of other unlikely topics we would prefer to hear such as the serial cancellation policies of space aliens.

The group decided that a vehicle was to needed to both 1. protect us from boring presentation at future SLA conferences and 2. find a home for the bizarre topics we might prefer to read or hear about but no sane journal or association would ever let us publish or present and 3. provide an opportunity for a library journal to be sold in the supermarket check-out line. The Journal of Irresponsible Librarianship was born to give those seeking tenure and promotion a place to publish (besides one of the founders thought being an editor would look good on her C.V. for tenure) and to showcase the unique personalities of those in the information profession.

Updated July 6, 2000(NOT! the new millennium, yet)