About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Library Leadership & Management (LL&M) is a journal of ALA Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures. LL&M focuses on assisting library leaders, both formal and informal, at all levels as they deal with day-to-day challenges. Articles address a wide variety of management issues and highlight examples of successful management methods used in libraries, explore issues or concerns relevant to Core, offer practical perspectives related to leadership and management, highlight methodologies or techniques that have broad applications in libraries of all types and sizes, and include interviews with library administrators or others in related fields.

Peer Review Process

LL&M is a hybrid journal with a mix of double-blind peer-reviewed articles and editor-reviewed items that are less formal and more practical in nature. LL&M also offers regular features that touch on issues and trends in the profession.

Peer Reviewers

LL&M relies on the contributions of peer reviewers to ensure high quality articles are published. LL&M issues a call for reviewers using ALA Connect each year, but we are always looking for reviewers. Reviewers generally review 1-3 articles per year and provide feedback using the reviewer rubric. If you are interested, please reach out to the editor or assistant editor.

Open Access Policy

Library Leadership & Management will provide unrestricted access to published content.

Name Change Policy and Process

LL&M recognizes that authors may change their names for many reasons, including—but not limited to—gender identity, marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. We respect that there may be sensitivities surrounding name changes and wish to reduce or remove any barriers to inclusion, professional mobility, and author credit.

Our current policy is to change, upon request of the author, any or all the author’s first, middle, and last names, initials, honorifics, and salutations, as well as other references to the author throughout the paper such as pronouns, captions, acknowledgements, and email addresses that contain names/initials in the full text (online HTML), PDF, and metadata records of those papers. There will be no acknowledgement in the article that this change has been made.

The LL&M Editorial Board continues to work with other ALA publications and divisions as well as the NISO Working Group to develop a Recommended Practice to Update Author Name Changes in the Academic Publication Record after Publication as a Result of Identity Change to refine and improve this policy.

It is important to note that LL&M cannot control the use or appearance of an author’s name on non-LL&M products or content (such as external indexing services and archives). Changes made to prior LL&M publications may not propagate to downstream environments.

Author's Steps: Authors who wish to change their name on prior publications they have authored may do so by following the instructions below

Step 1: Ensure that the name and ORCID iD (if applicable) listed in your author account has been updated. You can update your LL&M author account by visiting LL&M user profile and logging in with your username. Once logged in, your name, honorific, and ORCID iD can be updated. If you’re unable to update your LL&M profile, please notify us when you submit your request form (Step 2) and our Editorial Board will assist you.

Step 2: Complete the Core Journals Name Change Request Form.

Confirmation that LL&M user profile has been updated
Previous name
Current name
Current email address
List of articles that need updating. For each, please provide:

Article title
Article DOI
Author name as it appeared

Acknowledgement of where LL&M can and cannot change author information

Step 3. The LL&M Editor may contact you to discuss the details of making the change on the published articles and/or metadata on the LL&M website. If you have questions, please contact Elizabeth Nelson, Editor, at enelson@mchenry.edu

Publication Frequency

Library Leadership & Management is generally published on a quarterly basis.