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3257	Beatty, Mark	President’s Message: Doing Something about Life’s Persistent Problems?	2008-03-01	1	.pdf	application/pdf	521	35	73	Currently we librarians seem to be hitching our wagon to the idea of library as community because in part it's what we ourselves want. that our LITA members want more community from our want community. world is breaking their backs to create every form of virtual community they can think of as quickly as possible. issue face-to-face community we've always created, but to also create that new highly desired virtual community. Either we create a library-specific version, or we at the very least create a way for our patrons to access those communities. those virtual communities, we work to make it possible patrons with a research need turn to libraries first only because we're librarians and library technologists and Assessment and Research Committee co-chaired by Bonnie LITA board and the new committee. with a LITA colleague as you seek to find some answers It's all part of building community. mark Beatty (mbeatty@wils.wisc.edu) is LITA President 	./cache/3257.pdf	./txt/3257.txt