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12137	Varnum, Kenneth J.	Letter from the Editor	2020-03-16	1	.pdf	application/pdf	341	26	64	Letter from the Editor: The Core Question INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2020 As I write this, the members of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA), and LITA are voting to merge into a new consolidated division, Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures. This merger is essential to the continuing activities that we library technologists rely on. LITA has long focused on the library That has been our core competency, born of a time when technology was Core brings together the practitioners and technologies that make libraries run, and combines the focus—the core, if I may—of what I do is still in the center of the Venn diagram of technology, I voted to support Core and hope that all of you who belong to LITA, ALCTS, and/or LLAMA, will Varnum, Editor https://core.ala.org/	./cache/12137.pdf	./txt/12137.txt