DttP: Documents to the People is the official publication of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the American Library Association (ALA). DttP features articles on local, state, national, and international government information, government activities, and documents the professional activities of GODORT.

Volumes 1-30 (1972-2002) are available via the DttP Digital archive, housed at Stanford University. In addition to the journal issues, the site contains the indexes that were published and a number of related resources. Volumes 1 and 2 are available here. Volumes 3 through 30 are available here.

Endnotes: The Journal of the New Members Round Table is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that addresses issues faced by librarians. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Endnotes accepts research and practitioner-based articles. Each edition of the journal will contain 2–4 scholarly articles written by students and early-career librarians, as well as web site reviews and scholarly book reviews of titles relevant to new librarians. Endnotes’s aim is to work with new authors to produce quality scholarly articles.

Volumes 1–7 are available via the Endnotes committee website.

As of 2023, LRTS is fully Open Access! Enjoy our current issue and content from our archives, free of paywalls and free of author publishing charges!

Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) was the official journal of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) from 1957 to 2020. In September 2020, it became a publication of Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures. 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 Core.

Library Resources & Technical Services is an open access journal. Authors retain copyright of their work and grant usage rights under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. Readers have immediate free access to the work and may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, readers may or use them for any other lawful non-commercial purpose.

Issue Archive for LRTS volumes 1 (1957) - 40 (1996)

Published by ALA TechSource, an imprint of the American Library Association, Library Technology Reports helps librarians make informed decisions about technology products and projects.

Your purchase supports this publication and funds advocacy, awareness, and accreditation programs for library professionals worldwide.

As a subscription-based publication, Library Technology Reports will sunset with the December 2022 issue. After that time, it will be available for single-issue sales only.

Announcement:

We are so pleased to introduce the first issue of the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (JIFP). JIFP is an expansion of The Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom (NIF), published between 1952 and 2015. Ever mindful of serials librarians’ woes, we hereby state that this new publication is a continuation of NIF, but begun over with vol. 1, no. 1.

Current Issue

The Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association relaunched its journal, now called RUSQ: A Journal of Reference and User Experience in 2024. Its purpose is to disseminate information of interest to reference librarians, information specialists, and other professionals involved in user-oriented library services.
 
RUSQ is currently accepting submissions. Please see the Submissions page (https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions) for requirements or contact editor, Barry Trott, barry.trott@lva.virginia.gov.
 
 Book and media reviews from Vol 59, No 3/4 (2021): Spring/Summer issues can be found at:

• https://rusaupdate.org/2021/12/rusq-593-4-digital-supplement-sources-professional-materials/
• https://rusaupdate.org/2021/12/rusq-593-4-digital-supplement-reference-sources/
• https://rusaupdate.org/2021/12/rusq-593-4-digital-supplement-outstanding-business-information-sources-2021/
• https://rusaupdate.org/2021/12/rusq-593-4-digital-supplement-outstanding-business-information-sources-2020/

Published by ALA TechSource, an imprint of the American Library Association, Marshall Breeding’s Smart Libraries Newsletter presents news and analysis on products, vendors, and new developments in the library automation marketplace. It ceased publication in December 2021. If you have questions about your subscription, please contact us at subscriptions@ala.org or call toll free at (800) 545-2433, ext. 4299.