<div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Change impacts us all, including the Special Issue on Change Management in Technical Services. Please note the contact information for our guest editor has been updated. The submission portal, all other links, and deadlines remain the same. We're looking forward to hearing from you!<br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">--</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><div><span id="m_-2606973071879387795m_-6555836660918174514m_7437146551341703753m_2641487675629739978m_-298190067528977359m_-1504953522503475007m_-5689705788940127481gmail-docs-internal-guid-82abea06-7fff-287d-7210-b975dda57c3b"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">The editors of </span><a href="https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/index" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Library Resources & Technical Services</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">, an American Library Association Core Division journal, invite submissions and expressions of interest on the topic of </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RETw9CJ11Q339tr6TVGz58sJsppT_0G6EkrOwxqM_WI/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">change management in technical services</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Library Resources & Technical Services </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">publishes high-quality research, case studies, and professional communications open access at no cost to authors or readers.</span></p></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Library and information professionals working with resources encounter change on a daily basis – both internally-initiated and externally-imposed. We therefore have ample opportunity to consider how we plan for, implement, and assess these changes. Although there are a variety of models and frameworks for change management, it typically involves making the case for a change, planning the change, implementing the change, followed by ongoing evaluation and improvement after the change. There is no expectation of an explicit framework for change management – the editors appreciate the responsive nature of imposed change.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">A variety of topics could fall within scope of the special issue, including but not limited to:</span></p><br><ul><li><span id="m_-2606973071879387795m_-6555836660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ast-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Author Guidelines </span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">when preparing your manuscript. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please reach out with ideas, questions, or expressions of interest to special issue guest editor Melissa Zilic (</span><a href="mailto:mzilic.librarian@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">mzilic.librarian@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">). </span></p><br></font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">On behalf of <i>Library Resources & Technical Services</i>,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Melissa</font></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">_____________________________</font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Melissa Zilic</b>, MSLIS (</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">she/her)</span><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Librarian specializing in metadata, cataloging, taxonomy</font></div><div><div><a href="mailto:mzilic.librarian@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><font face="arial, sans-serif">mzilic.librarian@gmail.com</font></a></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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