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Library
Resources
& Technical Services (LRTS)
ALCTS's
peer-reviewed quarterly online journal takes a
critical approach to
questions and challenges facing technical services
professionals and
reviews professional publications.
LRTS
is
the official journal of the Association for Library
Collections and
Technical Services. Regarded as one of the top
technical services
journals1,
LRTS
publishes
research and “Notes on Operations” papers that have
undergone
double-blind peer-review. The LRTS
Editorial
Board is composed of a panel of experts who
represent the various
ALCTS sections, which include these subject areas
and topics:
-
Acquisitions, including licensing and economic aspects of
acquisitions
- Cataloging and metadata, including MARC and
non-MARC metadata, RDA, authority control, subject analysis,
classification
- Continuing resources, including cataloging and
management
- Collection development
- Preservation, including
digitization
- Scholarly communications
- Training and
education of technical services librarians and personnel,
including
continuing education
Have you given a presentation? Consider
taking it one step farther by developing it into a research
paper;
LRTS editors and
staff can
guide you through this transition. Have you implemented
an
innovative process or resolved a thorny problem that other
libraries
are facing? It may be a good candidate for a “Notes on
Operations”
paper. New to publishing? Get started by writing a book review
for
LRTS!
Prospective
authors interested in writing a piece for LRTS should:
-
Visit the LRTS
website at
http://alcts.metapress.com
to read past issues
- Read the resources for LRTS
authors linked at http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/lrts
and the Proposal Guidelines for ALCTS Publications
(http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/info/proposal-guide)
and suggested topics list, and
- Contact the LRTS
Editor at lrtseditor@ala.org.
We look forward to hearing from you!
1Judith
M. Nixon, “Core Journals in Library and Information
Science:
Developing a Methodology for Ranking LIS Journals,”
College
& Research Libraries
75, no. 1: 66-90.
Association for
Library Collections & Technical Services
a
division of the American Library Association
www.ala.org/alcts