Hi Andy,

> LITA's peer-reviewed quarterly journal, is online and accessible to all
> LITA members. Issues older than six months are open to all.

I can't say as I understand how restricting access to the articles benefits the authors, LITA members, or the general public.  Just out of curiosity, what's the thinking on that?

> One of the most important features of ITALica is a forum for readers'
> conversations with our authors, wherein authors host and monitor
> discussion for a period of time after publication of their articles,
> so that you then have a chance to interact with them.

Per the above question, how does that forum stuff work?  Do LITA member readers have a conversation amongst themselves and then six months later, there's another conversation with readers who are non-LITA-members?  Or by then, are the authors no longer monitoring the discussion?

-- Michael

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> -----Original Message-----
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> Andy Boze
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] [ANNOUNCEMENT] : March 2011 issue of ITALica, a weblog
> on libraries and information technology...
> 
> Cross-posted; apologies for duplication.
> *********************************************
> 
> Hello friends,
> 
> The March 2011 issue of /Information Technology and Libraries/ (ITAL),
> LITA's peer-reviewed quarterly journal, is online and accessible to all
> LITA members. Issues older than six months are open to all. ITAL's main
> page is at
> <http://www.lita.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/ital/italinformation.cfm>.
> 
> ITALica <http://ital-ica.blogspot.com/>, the weblog discussion area for
> ITAL, has been updated with information about the latest issue. ITALica
> features supplementary materials not included with the regular print and
> electronic versions of /Information Technology and Libraries/, such as
> "letters to the editor", updates to articles, and other materials we
> can't work into the journal. One of the most important features of
> ITALica is a forum for readers' conversations with our authors, wherein
> authors host and monitor discussion for a period of time after
> publication of their articles, so that you then have a chance to
> interact with them.
> 
> ITALica offers you the opportunity to discuss with the following ITAL
> authors their papers in the latest issue:
> 
> "A Simple Scheme for Book Classification Using Wikipedia" /
> Andromeda Yelton
> 
> "The Internet Public Library (IPL): An Exploratory Case Study on User
> Perceptions" /
> Monica Maceli, Susan Wiedenbeck, and Eileen Abels
> 
> "Semantic Web for Reliable Citation Analysis in Scholarly Publishing" /
> Ruben Tous, Manel Guerrero, and Jaime Delgado
> 
> "Web Accessibility, Libraries, and the Law" /
> Camilla Fulton
> 
> "Usability of the VuFind Next-Generation Online Catalog" /
> Jennifer Emanuel
> 
> No membership is required to view or participate in ITALica. We hope to
> see you there!
> 
> --
> Andy Boze
> Web site Manager, ITAL, for the Editorial Board