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The Publications Committee of LIRT is pleased to announce the publication and distribution of its long-term special project, a bibliography of non-library journals that have published articles relating to libraries or the library profession.
Publish Your Article Outside the Library Field is the result of several years of work on the part of the Publications Committee, during which time many members came and went, each contributing in some way. The sheer size of the bibliography and the frequently changing journal information certainly made updating every single entry according to the current edition of Ulrich’s a daunting task and greatly contributed to the length of the project.
To compile the bibliography, the initiators if the project and subsequent committee members performed subject searches in automated databases such as ABI/INFORM, COMPENDEX, ERIC, ArticleFirst from First Search and MEDLINE (among others) for library-related articles. Although it was expected that the number of articles would be substantial enough to warrant compiling a bibliography of this type, no one expected it to be 50 pages long!
The range of fields represented by these journals is very broad, with journals such as Pulp and Paper, Canadian Ethics Studies, Laboratory Robotics and Automation, Nebraska History, The Practical Litigator, Astrophysics and Space Science, and even the Chartered Accountant Journal of New Zealand being included among the journals which have published articles relating to the library or information science field.
It is hoped that Publish Your Article Outside the Library Field will help librarians and other information science professionals expand their publishing opportunities by identifying journals to which they may submit their work. In addition to this obvious benefit, however, is an added bonus: by publishing in these journals outside our own profession, we may contribute to a broader understanding of the value of what we do among other professionals in many areas of science, business and the humanities.
Publish Your Article Outside the Library Field is available from
LIRT for $12.50.
Rebecca Ohm Spencer is Reference and Government Documents Librarian
at Sawyer Library, Williams College
Williamstown MA 01267.
LIRT News, September 2000. Volume 23, number 1.
To report problems, please contact the LIRT News Production editor
at jronan@ufl.edu