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publish! with ALCTS ALCTS Publications
*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 https://journals.ala.org/lrts 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_at_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
Received on Tue Jan 19 2016 - 10:38:47 EST