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.

The prominence of LRTS was confirmed in a 2004 study by Nisonger and Davis, who gathered ratings from deans and directors of ALA-accredited MLS degree programs, who ranked the importance and prestige of more than 70 journals. LRTS ranked 11th among these distinguished publications. (Thomas E. Nisonger and Charles H. Davis, “The Perception of Library and Information Science Journals by LIS Educations Deans and ARL Library Directors . . . ” College & Research Libraries 66, no. 4 (July 2005): 341-77)

LRTS Editorial Board Members

Bibliographic Information   

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

Impact Factor    

2007: 0.628 (Journal Citation Reports® 2008, published by Thomson Scientific)