id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 3165 Pace, Andrew K. President's Message: LITA Now 2009-03-01 1 .pdf application/pdf 748 40 62 2 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | MARCH 2009 Pace (pacea@oclc.org) is LITA President 2008/2009 and Executive Director, Networked Library Services at OCLC Inc. in t the time of this writing, my term as LITA president is half over; by the time of publication, I I hope that this time between ALA conferences is a time of reflection for the LITA board, committees, interest groups, and the membership at large. focus its attention regarding library technology. I will hope, however, that LITA's Technology and cuts to library budgets. at library technology through a lens of efficiency and When it comes to running systems, we need to make sacrifices of time, money, and talent to support our profession, it is often tempting when economic times are Politics and economics? I think there are opportunities for libraries to get their own economic bailout in supporting public the ALA Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP, ./cache/3165.pdf ./txt/3165.txt