Editorial: Showing Our Resolve

Abstract

New Year’s resolutions tend to be ephemeral things, conceived in the waking fog of the early morning (or afternoon, no judgment) on January 1 and usually abandoned before the first bloom of spring. Here at Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS), we strive not to be fair weather planners, and so our resolution for 2025 (and beyond) has been years in the making. The editors of LRTS, working alongside Core Journal editors and within the broader family of American Library Association (ALA) publications, resolves to work transparently and in line with best practices for publishing ethics. Beginning in 2022, editors representing journals and magazines throughout ALA’s portfolio worked as the Publishing Sub-Committee—Ethics to draft a policy that would facilitate our membership in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). ALA CD#32.2 was approved as ALA policy at the 2024 Annual Conference and awaits placement into the Policy Manual. It will be included in the revised Policy Manual (located in Chapter 16 ALA Publications in 2025). In other words, LRTS is making great progress on our resolution to work as transparently and ethically as possible.