You can see the Executive Director's membership reports on ALA Connect:

Annual 2014 - http://connect.ala.org/node/225631 (pdf)
Midwinter 2014 - http://connect.ala.org/node/216881 (pdf)
Annual 2013 - http://connect.ala.org/node/208000 (.docx)
Midwinter 2013 - http://connect.ala.org/node/197812 (.rtf)

-Cindi
LITA Immediate Past President


On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Kevin Ford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> > 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
> >
>
> -- Maybe.  I think it it recession-related.  The high water mark for
> nearly all of the groups on that list is 2007 (2006 for one or two). The
> overall stats for ALA show the same membership pattern (increasing until
> 2007, decreasing thereafter): http://www.ala.org/membership/
> membershipstats_files/annual_memb_stats
>
> I'd be interested to know if LITA's membership decrease is greater (as a
> percentage) than the others.  Perhaps that would suggest forums such as
> code4lib peeled off some of those would-be LITA members.  Otherwise, it
> just looks like a broader decline in ALA membership, probably for a few
> reasons: fewer librarians in the workforce, fewer institutions willing to
> pay professional membership fees, less willingness to pay those fees out of
> pocket, etc.
>
> Yours,
> Kevin
>
>
>
>
>
> On 1/5/15 10:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>