id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-10747 Varnum, Kenneth J. Letter from the Editor (September 2018) 2018-09-26 1 .pdf application/pdf 267 12 51 In addition to peer-reviewed articles on recommender systems, big data processing and storage, finding vendor accessibility documentation, using GIS to find specific books on a shelf, and a recommender system for archival manuscripts, we are also publishing the student paper by this year’s Ex Libris/LITA Student Writing Award, “The Open Access Citation Advantage: Does It Exist and What Does It Mean for Libraries?”, by Colby Lewis at the University of Michigan School of Information. Letter from the Editor Kenneth J. Varnum INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | SEPTEMBER 2018 1 https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i3.10747 This September 2018 issue of ITAL continues our celebration of the journal’s 50 th anniversary with a column by former Editorial Board member Mark Dehmlow, who highlights the technological changes beginning to stir the library world in the 1980s. cache/ital-10747.pdf txt/ital-10747.txt