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ital-10980	Kim, Bohyun	LITA President’s Message: Updates from the 2019 ALA Midwinter Meeting	2019-03-18	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1441	44	42	First, as many of you know, the potential merger of LITA with ALCTS and LLAMA has been temporarily put on hold, due to an initial timeline that was rather ambitious and the lack of time required to deliberate on and resolve some issues in the transition plan to meet that timeline.1 These updates were also shared at the LITA Town Hall during the Midwinter Meeting, where many LITA members spent time discussing topics such as the draft mission and vision statements for the new division, what makes people feel at home in a division, in which areas LITA should re- double its focus, and which activities LITA may be able to set aside without losing its identity. It was also pointed out that the virtual format may provide an opportunity for LITA to experiment with different and more unconventional conference program formats, which could be a welcoming change to LITA members.	cache/ital-10980.pdf	txt/ital-10980.txt