Journals
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Children and Libraries
Children and Libraries (CAL) is the official journal of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association. The Journal primarily serves as a vehicle for continuing education of librarians working with children, which showcases current scholarly research and practice in library service to children. It also serves as a vehicle for communication to the ALSC membership, spotlighting significant news, activities, and initiatives of the Association. -
DttP: Documents to the People
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.
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Endnotes: The Journal of the New Members Round Table
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.
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Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy
Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy is the official journal of the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), an office of the American Library Association. -
Library Resources & Technical Services
As of 2023, LRTS is fully Open Access! Enjoy our current issue and content from our archives, free of paywalls!
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.
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Library Technology Reports
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.
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Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom
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.
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Reference & User Services Quarterly
The Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association will relaunch 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 will begin accepting submissions in January 2024. 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.
In the meantime, please enjoy earlier articles available on this website: https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/issue/archive.
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/
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Smart Libraries Newsletter
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.
