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3329	Mullin, Patrick	President's Column	2006-06-01	1	.pdf	application/pdf	846	75	72	50 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | JUNE 2006 In July 1966, the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) was officially born at the American Library Association (ALA) the first twenty-five years of LITA is intriguing reading R. Salmon's article "LITA's First Twenty-Five Years: A technology organization that has been in existence for the quote if I did) once told me that library automation The 1970s saw the introduction of minicomputer systems. Automation and systems evolved and changed over the years, and so did libraries. stores better than what the library was able to provide. All the while, during these four decades, our association and its members continually adapted to the new association, are again facing the need to change, to transform ourselves. IT, digital technology, automation (whatever term you want to use) affects the work of virtually every library to contact me or any member of the board (www.lita .org/ala/lita/aboutlita/org/litagov/board.htm).	./cache/3329.pdf	./txt/3329.txt