Library Resources & Technical Services

Library Resources & Technical Services ( LRTS) is a peer-reviewed journal that takes a critical approach to the questions and challenges facing librarians and libraries with regard to:

• Collections
• Scholarly communication
• Preservation (including digitization)
• Acquisitions (including licensing and economic aspects of acquisitions)
• Continuing resources
• Cataloging (including descriptive metadata, authority control, subject analysis, and classification)

LRTS publishes both research papers and thoughtful explorations of operational issues that have value and implications for other libraries. In addition, LRTS publishes editorials, book reviews, letters to the editor, and the annual report of the president of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services.

Issue Archive

Contains table of contents, article abstracts, volume indexes, and complete issues (in PDF):

• volume 41, 1997 to present
• volume 1, 1957 to volume 40, 1996

Bibliographic Information    

• ISSN: 0024-2527
• Commenced publication: 1957
• Frequency: quarterly (4 issues per vol., 1 vol. per year)

Impact Factor    

2008: 0.698 ( Journal Citation Reports® 2009, published by Thomson Scientific)

For Readers

• Subscribing
• Indexing procedures
• Supplementary Materials
• Cresting toward the Sea Change: Literature Review of Cataloging and Classification, 2009–2010 List of Sources
• Preservation in the Digital Age: A Review of Preservation Literature, 2009–2010 Supplementary Bibliography

For Authors

• Instructions
• FAQ
• Readings
• Turning a presentation into a paper
• How to write a research report

For Reviewers

• Instructions

For Advertisers

• Guide for Advertisers

LRTS is the official journal of the Association of Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association.