Library Resources & Technical Services

the Official Journal of the Association for Library Collections Technical Services
Current Issue: v. 54, no.3

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.

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

• Issue Archive: 
  volume 41, 1997 to present | volume 1, 1957 to volume 40, 1996 
• Subscribing
• Indexing procedures

For Authors

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

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.