Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures, a division of the American Library Association, invites applications and nominations for the editor for Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS), one of Core’s three scholarly research journals. The LRTS Editor will be appointed for a renewable three-year term ending June 30, 2024.  The appointment includes an annual stipend of $1,500 and paid registration to attend the ALA Annual Conference. See https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts for more information about the journal. 

Responsibilities

• Solicits submissions and publicizes the contents of published issues of the journal
• Convenes meetings of the journal’s editorial board
• Collaborates with the editorial board to achieve a balance among the articles published to best represent the varied interests of all technical services professionals.
• Assigns submissions to board members for peer review
• Fields author inquiries
• Makes publication decisions regarding submissions
• Guides authors of accepted submissions through the publication process
• Serves on Core’s Publications Coordination Committee
• Provides an annual report to show number and type of submissions, acceptance rate, etc.
• A long-term goal will be to transition the journal from green OA to completely OA

Qualifications:

• Must be a member of Core
• Demonstrated writing and editing expertise
• Experience with the peer review process
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Awareness of current technical services and collections research issues and trends, including efforts to create more diverse, equitable, and inclusive knowledge structures
• Knowledge of the professionals working in the areas of collections and technical services
• Knowledge of copyright ownership issues as provided by ALA
• Skills and professional standing to attract prospective authors
• Experience with electronic manuscript submission and management systems
• Knowledge of OA models

Interested applicants should submit a resume and cover letter with the names and contact information for three references, via email to Mary Beth Weber (mbfecko@libraries.rutgers.edu). 

Submit specified application materials to mbfecko@libraries.rutgers.edu.