Submission Guidelines:

Bridging Fields publishes research and critical reflection that features the work of new or emerging students and scholars twice a year. The Spring/Summer Issue is published in late May or early June and features work from students in their first year of the NYU-LIU Dual Degree program. The Fall/Winter Issue, published in late December, is open to submissions from graduate library and information science students and early career professionals working between Library and Information Studies and the Humanities.

FALL/WINTER ISSUE:

Bridging Fields is accepting pitches for our Winter 2025 issue. We are looking for interdisciplinary work from graduate library and information science students and early career library professionals working between Library and Information Studies and the Humanities. Bridging Fields is managed by NYU’s Division of Libraries under the facilitation of New York University and Long Island University’s Dual Degree program coordinators, as well as student editors in the Dual Degree program. We publish research and critical reflection that features the work of new and emerging students and scholars. Previous issues of the journal have featured student writing from the NYU-LIU Dual Degree program, focusing on scholarly and professional projects that explore library and archival practices and experiences with subject studies in English, history, costume studies, and more.

Bridging Fields accepts pitches up to 500 words, sent directly to bridgingfields@nyu.edu.

We are accepting pitches up to 500 words through email at bridgingfields@nyu.edu until July 31, 2025. We encourage pitching complete or near complete projects. We will respond to pitches by August 15, 2025. Accepted projects should be submitted by September 30, 2025. You may also send questions to the above email address. Pitches should be shared as a Google or Word doc (.docx filetype) or as a PDF attached to the body of an email. All pitches should include author’s name, proposed title, and brief biographical information including where they are studying, or recently graduated from, and their current position or research focus.

SPRING/SUMMER ISSUE:

Bridging Fields’ Spring/Summer Issue features writing and projects produced as part of the NYU-LIU Dual Degree program Mentorship Course. This yearlong course provides students with an introduction to research libraries, archives, museums, and cultural institutions and the services they provide. Part of this course requires students to to work with their mentors and course facilitators to develop a piece of publishable scholarship or professional reflection. Bridging Fields is one possible home for these articles and research projects. The work is intended to be a highlight of the interdisciplinary way that students are bridging their subject study with studies in library and information science.

Students submit their articles to the Bridging Fields student editorial board at the end of the Spring semester. Editors work to review, format, and make suggestions to student articles before publishing them in the journal.