The March 2018 issue (volume 37, number 1) of Information Technology and
Libraries (ITAL) has been published and may be read at
https://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/index. The table of contents
appears below.

This issue marks the journal’s 50th anniversary. The table of contents and
brief abstracts of reviewed articles are below.

Ken Varnum

Editor


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   Letter from the Editor <https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i1.10388> (Ken
   Varnum)
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   LITA President’s Message <https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i1.10386>
   (Andromeda Yelton)
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   ITAL Editorial Board Thoughts: Halfway Home: User Centered Design and
   Library Websites <https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i1.10338> (Mark Cyzyk)
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   Information Technology and Libraries at 50: The 1960's in Review
   <https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i1.10339> (Mark Cyzyk)
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   “Academic Libraries on Social Media: Finding the Students and the
   Information They Want <https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i1.10160>”
   (Heather Howard, Sarah Huber, Lisa Carter, and Elizabeth Moore)
   Although most libraries today participate in some form of social media,
   few take the time to learn how they might use this medium more effectively
   to meet the needs and interests of their users. This study by Purdue
   University Libraries offers an instructive example of how to apply user
   research to the development of an effective social media strategy. This
   article will be of interest to librarians looking to gain a better
   understanding of the social media habits of college students or improve
   communication with their users.
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   “Accessible, Dynamic Web Content Using Instagram
   <https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i1.10230>” (Jaci Wilkinson)
   Using social media to reach a library’s communities has traditionally
   focused on using Twitter and Facebook to engage patrons. In this article,
   the authors discuss how they developed an interface to push content from
   their archives and special collections to Instagram. This article is
   especially interesting as it focuses on a number of issues: developing the
   API, designing for accessibility, and taking advantage of evolving social
   media trends.
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   “Trope or Trap? Role-Playing Narratives and Length in Instructional Video
   <https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i1.10046>” (Amanda S. Clossen)
   This article, detailing the results of a large-scale survey, provides a
   solid and useful addition to the literature on how best to create
   instructional videos.  A must read for instructional-video-creating
   librarians!
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   “Identifying Emerging Relationships in Healthcare Domain Journals via
   Citation Network Analysis <https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i1.9595>”
   (Kuo-Chung Chu, Hsin-Ke Lu, and Wen-I Liu)
   Ever wonder how the articles in a particular research domain connect to
   one another, or how those connections might evolve over time? Eager to help
   researchers quickly and visually identify key articles within a particular
   research domain? Incorporating data mining techniques for co-citation
   analysis,  Chu, Liu, and Lu offer a tantalizing glimpse – a study that
   builds an automated web-based citation analysis system presenting an
   automated system that can do both.
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   “Digitization of Textual Documents Using PDF/A
   <https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i1.9878>” (Yan Han and Xueheng Wan)
   This article provides a technical yet practical explanation of the value
   of using the open PDF/A file format for the long-term preservation of
   digital content, and will appeal to staff in any type of library
   responsible for determining preferred file formats for future discovery and
   access.


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Ken Varnum
Senior Program Manager for Discovery, Delivery, and Library Analytics
Library Information Technology | University of Michigan Library
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