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Editorial objectives
Library Hi Tech News (LHTN) helps busy professionals stay abreast of current events and developments in the library and information industry.
Subscriber benefits
As a subscriber to Library Hi Tech News you will be able to:
- Keep ahead of worldwide developments in library technology, so you can exploit their potential to help you improve and extend library services
- Find out what new products and services are potentially useful to you and where you can obtain them
- Stay fully informed about important international issues and activities
- Obtain helpful advice on new technology, information sources and services for library users with disabilities
- Keep pace with everything that is happening in the field via news items, reviews and a diary of forthcoming events
Regular content
- Technology profiles from libraries "around the world"
- Feature articles
- Conference reviews - in-depth conference reports
- New & noteworthy - contains updates on everything of interest to the librarian
- Calendar - a diary of forthcoming events
Submissions particularly welcome in the following areas:
- New Web Browsers/Search Engines
- Virtual Reference/Pilots/Experiments
- Library Uses of Skype/VOIP
- Integrated Library Systems (ILSs) and ILMS
- Blogging
- Discovery Tools/Federated Search
- Library Mobile Applications
- EContent/Ebooks/Digital Collections
- Social Networks/Collaboration
- Virtual Worlds
- Instructional Technology
- Content Management Systems
- Library as Publisher
- Twitter Applications for Libraries
- Gaming and Simulations
- Digital Textbooks
- New Library Learning Spaces
- Digital Preservation/Data Curation
- Virtual Conferencing
- Citation Managers
- Digital Video
- Technology for Library Users with Disabilities
- LibGuides and similar products
- Data Visualization
- EScience/EResearch/Cyberinfrastructure
- Open Source Software
- Cloud Computing
- Metadata and Tagging
- Crowdsourcing
- Web analytics tools
- Web 3.0 and the semantic web.
Indexed and abstracted in
- Current Abstracts
- Current Index to Journals in Education
- INSPEC
- Library and Information Science Abstracts
- Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
- The Informed Librarian
- Scopus
Library Hi Tech News is available as part of an online subscription to the Emerald Library and Information Studies Subject Collection. For more information, please email collections@emeraldinsight.com.

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principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Sample Articles
- Using RSS feeds and social bookmarking tools to keep current
Cuiying Mu
Volume: 25 Issue: 9; 2008
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- Using a wiki to publish a research guide
Elisa Mason
Volume: 25 Issue: 9; 2008
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