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This is why we love you. :P (not a mistake. sent to list. sorry to spam but Andromeda rocksssssss.) On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Andromeda Yelton <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > (Putting on LITA Board hat) > > To pull out some math in case you don't want to sort through the docs, and > also make a correction: > > Yes, LITA's membership decline is faster than average for ALA. > > No, LITA is not the smallest division; ASCLA and United are quite a bit > smaller. > > (Putting on personal hat) > > I find myself thinking of LITA less as "the technology division of ALA" and > more as "the libtech association where I get to meet non-technology > librarians". I love getting to meet people I can talk Django and Heroku > with (!), and I meet more of those in code4lib than in ALA. But I *also* > love > seeing how the tools of the libtech world do, and don't, support the needs > of library staff and patrons more broadly. And I love learning how the > issues that matter to us as technologists - copyright, data quality, > privacy - impact librarians in other subfields. And, to be blunt, there are > some damn fun youth services librarians, copyright librarians, > instructional librarians, et cetera. And I meet them through LITA. > > (okay maybe that was my Board hat too. I can wear two hats at once! I am > like Hydra. Well. Not Project Hydra. Or Hail Hydra. SO YOU HOPE.) > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Cindi Blyberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > 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 > > >> > > >> > > > > > > -- > Andromeda Yelton > Board of Directors, Library & Information Technology Association: > http://www.lita.org > Advisor, Ada Initiative: http://adainitiative.org > http://andromedayelton.com > @ThatAndromeda <http://twitter.com/ThatAndromeda> >