Elibraries—Ebooks, E-Resources, and E-Collections
Experiments and experiences with ebooks, e-reference services, e-repositories, e-archives, and e-collections. Also, reports about e-readers, tablets, and other portable devices for lending or providing access to materials. Case studies comparing ebook vendors, digital content collections, information services, or discovery systems.

Mobile First and Foremost
Designing library services for mobile devices, mobile users, and mobile needs. Adopting and deploying vendor solutions for library apps, or using vendor APIs to create an app. Also, tips and techniques for designing responsive websites and how to offer new and different library services using the unique capabilities of mobile devices.

Datamation
Cases studies, strategies, and best practices for data curation, metadata harvesting, user tagging, and library services based on structured data, datasets, or databases. How libraries can provide services based on linked data. Big data collections, data mining tips and tools, and library case studies involving crowdsourced data. Also analytics.

The Library Destacked
New ways to operate and new ways to serve users by employing technology to repurpose spaces, extend services, and add value for library users. Case studies involving the new platforms that are revolutionizing library operations. How to choose cloud, SaaS, and web-scale service providers. Articles about media centers, tech labs, and game centers. Also, library as a platform.

Library Score Cards & Anayltics
How you use technology to achieve the goals of your enterprise, the aspirations of your institution, or the needs of your community. Analytics, metrics, measures, and assessments. Determining the ROI on social media projects, investments in mobile services, digitization efforts, or digital journal, ebook, or other econtent collections. Comparing the value of hardware and software options. Also, considerations of open access and open source alternatives.

How to Select, Buy, and Use Library Stuff
User reviews of library software, systems, techno-platforms, content collections, and devices. Share your experience in selecting and implementing technology solutions for your public, special, or academic library. Formal evaluations of library systems and vendors. Also, short how-to or tips and tricks articles on any library initiative. Share the results of your surveys and studies about what works.

CIL Goes Back to School
Case studies, reports, and commentaries on how libraries are using technology to expand their role in education for continuing education, distance learning, or digital literacy or to reposition themselves in schools and colleges. Reports on evaluating and adopting etexts and other digital learning resources. Comments on the new role of libraries in academe. Also, virtual reference and remote access.

ILS—Are We Next Gen Yet?
Articles about developing, deploying, and evaluating library systems in public, academic, or special libraries, archives, and museums. Assessments and evaluations of commercial discovery systems. Discovery methods for surfacing content objects, artifacts, or specimens in libraries and museums. Assessing the role of library websites in the discovery process. Developing and testing apps for search and discovery.

Specia l Collections, Curations, and Digitizations
Technical challenges, methods, and best practices for gathering, digitizing, and providing access to special materials, archives, or institutional repositories. Digital preservation projects in libraries and museums. Using technology to meet custodianship or stewardship goals. Also, providing means for patrons to contribute to digitization efforts or to digitize their own materials.

Financials, Forecasts, and Futures
Tech trends and forecasts: comments and analyses on the evolving library landscape; social, political, economic, and technical trends affecting libraries, information centers, museums, and archives. Strategies for adaptation, evolution, and revolution. Reports about how libraries are proving themselves, reinventing themselves, and repositioning themselves in order to survive and thrive. Also, the things that endure.

In August 2013, we'll choose the themes for 2014.
We'll post them on our Web site in August and print them in our September issue.