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 >> >>