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LRTS July 2016 AND Call for Authors

Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) (https://journals.ala.org/lrts)

In case you missed it over the summer, the July 2016 (v. 60, no.3) issue of LRTS has some great articles!* 

Articles

- “More Than a Name: a Content Analysis of Name Authority Records for Authors Who Self-Identify as Trans” by Kelly J. Thompson
- “Survey of Classification and Organization of Videorecordings” by Barbara J. Bergman, Jessica Schomberg, and Dorie Kurtz
- “Literature of Acquisitions in Review, 2012-13” by Angela Dresselhaus

Notes on Operations

- “Customizing an Open Source Discovery Layer at East Carolina University Libraries:  The Cataloger’s Role in Developing a Replacement for a Traditional Online Catalog” by Marlena Barber, Christopher Holden, and Janet L. Mayo
- “Leveraging Author-Supplied Metadata, OAI-PMH, and XSLT to Catalog ETDs: A Case Study at a Large Research Library” by Ken Robinson, Jeff Edmunds, and Stephen C. Mattes
- “Electronic Outages: What Broke, Who Broke It, and How to Track It” by Jennifer Wright

*All issues from v. 40, 1996 through the fifth-most-recent issue are openly available to everyone. Instructions for accessing member- and subscriber-only content can be found at http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/lrts/member-access.

Interested in joining the ranks of LRTS authors?  LRTS seeks a few good contributors!  Looking for a little more information?  Contact Editor Mary Beth Weber, lrtseditor@lists.ala.org for more information, or scroll down!

Have you given a presentation? Consider taking it one step farther by developing it into a research paper; LRTS editors and staff can guide you through this transition. Have you implemented an innovative process or resolved a thorny problem that other libraries are facing? It may be a good candidate for a “Notes on Operations” paper. New to publishing? Get started by writing a book review for LRTS! 

Prospective authors interested in writing a piece for LRTS should:

- Visit the LRTS website at https://journals.ala.org/lrts to read past issues
- Read the resources for LRTS authors linked at http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/lrts and the Proposal Guidelines for ALCTS Publications (http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/info/proposal-guide) and suggested topics list
- Authors have the right to retain copyright and may deposit their papers in their institutional repository.

LRTS is published four times per year (January, April, July, October).

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