Library Resources & Technical Services

the official journal of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

Current Issue

Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) is available online at journals.ala.org/lrts. All issues from vol. 40, 1996 through the fifth-most-recent issue are online and openly available to everyone. Instructions for accessing member- and subscriber-only content.

Volume 58, no. 4 (2014) was the final print issue of LRTS. Read the "Open Letter to ALCTS Members and LRTS Subscribers" (April 2014) to learn more about the conversion of LRTS to an e-only journal.

About LRTS

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) of

• v. 41, 1997 – v.54, 2010
• v. 1, 1957 – v. 40, 1996

Bibliographic Information

Online Version:

• ISSN: 2159-9610
• Launched: 2012

Print Version:

• ISSN: 0024-2527
• Commenced publication: 1957; ceased publication: 2014

Frequency: quarterly (4 issues per volume, 1 volume. per year)

Instructions for Accessing LRTS

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 Book Reviewers

• Instructions
• Volunteer to become a book reviewer for LRTS

For Advertisers

• 2018 LRTS Advertising Rate Card

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