>> I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology
>> Association)? [0] How many members does it have?
> 
> Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the ALA
> membership statistics page:
> 
> http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita


Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM