This call-for-papers may tickle the fancy of lovers of deep and dusty research, and those who enter a library with a pocket digicam and a piratical grin. The Joy of Information: A Library Trends Special Issue…

This special issue of Library Trends features writings that explore the relationship between information and joy [in an issue that] brings together bright and uplifting views of information to contrast with critical or problem-oriented perspectives that color our literature in grayscale.

They appear not to want to see proposals, but rather full-papers submitted by 1st August 2020.