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publish! with ALCTS
Why Publish?
Share new ideas, research, and best practices with the library technical
services community.
Have your knowledge and expertise recognized.
Assist in your quest for promotion and tenure and to increase your
standing in your profession.
Why Publish with ALCTS?
Prestige. The only non-profit publisher devoted to expertise in
acquisitions, cataloging, preservation, and collection development,
ALCTS Publishing is a trusted source of timely information and
pioneering scholarship for the technical services community. As an ALCTS
author, you’ll join a distinguished publishing family with a rich body
of publications noted for their rigor and real-world applicability.
Support. ALCTS provides generous support to its authors throughout the
publication process, from offering assistance with idea generation and
reading early drafts to shepherding writers through the complexities of
sending a completed manuscript to press. No matter where you may be in
the writing process, ALCTS is there to answer your questions, offer
editorial advice, and do everything it can to ensure that your work
bears fruit in a polished, fully realized publication.
Diversity. The array of ALCTS publications provides a variety of writing
opportunities for aspiring authors, from the substantive collections of
essays in ALCTS Monographs to practical, hands-on guides in the Sudden
Selectors Guides series to the to the short feature articles in its
association news site, ALCTS News. A new online publishing initiative,
z687, provides ALCTS authors an exciting venue for publishing white
papers and think pieces on timely issues in library technical services.
Quality. Most ALCTS publications must undergo some form of peer review
from journal editorial boards or publications committee readers. All
must meet uncompromising standards of editorial quality. Authors at
tenure-granting institutions can count on ALCTS to perform the strenuous
editorial gatekeeping required to give their publications clout on
dossiers and prestige in the library community.
Publicity. As an ALCTS author, you can depend on ALCTS to make sure that
your work makes its print or online debut with a splash. Press releases,
flyers, Twitter and Facebook announcements, features on ALCTS’ website,
and advertisements in prominent library publications will help give your
work the publicity boost it needs to shine in a crowded publishing
market, while availability of ALCTS publications through Amazon.com and
the ALA Online Store will make your work highly visible to consumers.
Strength. ALCTS relies on strong publications sales to provide the
revenue stream it needs to serve the technical services community
through conference programs, web courses and webinars, and other
outreach efforts. Writing for ALCTS is one of the best ways you can
support the organization’s vital work and bolster its reputation as a
provider of high-quality books, journals, and online publications.
Who Can Publish through ALCTS?
Anyone! ALCTS Publishing welcomes submissions from individual authors,
members of ALCTS committees and interest groups, and non-ALCTS members
alike.
How Can I Explore Publishing with ALCTS?
Discuss publication ideas with the chair of the ALCTS Publications
Committee, Mary Miller (memiller_at_umn.edu).
Submit your proposal at the ALCTS website
www.ala.org/alcts/resources/info/proposal-guide.
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
a division of the American Library Association
www.ala.org/alcts
<http://m.lib.uci.edu/>
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