ALCTS invites authors to contribute publications on topics related to selecting, obtaining, preserving, and providing access to resources required by library users. Here are some highlighted suggestions:
- Use of assessment/measurable outcomes in Technical Services
- BIBFRAME and the future of MARC
- Connecting with the community outside Technical Services; maintaining relationships with various constituencies
- Continuing resources: What is the future of serials? What are the trends?
- Data curation, cataloging and collections issues, digital preservation: best practices, justification, and practical guidelines for implementation
- Integration of digital collections into collection building
- Linked Data: theory and practical applications
- Managing electronic resources, covering issues in acquisition, access management, and cataloging
- RDA training techniques
- Scholarly communications and the role of Technical Services
- Shared print collections, including how to write a collection management plan, bibliographic issues, analyzing collections across multiple institutions, retention and withdrawal policies, communication, etc.
- Staffing optimization: reorganizing Technical Services workflows in a digital environment
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Editors of ALCTS Division Publications
Library Resources & Technical Services: Mary Beth Weber, lrtseditor@lists.ala.org
ALCTS News: Chelcie Juliet Rowell, alctsnews@lists.ala.org
ALCTS Monographs: Susan Thomas, alctsmonographs@lists.ala.org
ALCTS Publications Committee: Alison M. Armstrong, Co-chair, amarmstro@radford.edu, Rebecca Kemp Goldfinger, Co-chair, rkemp@umd.edu
For more information about ALCTS publications, visit www.ala.org/alcts/resources.
This list was last revised in June 2019.