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From Andy Boze, Web site Manager, ITAL, for the Editorial Board:

The December 2009 issue of /Information Technology and Libraries/ (ITAL), LITA’s peer-reviewed quarterly journal, is online and accessible to all LITA members. Issues older than six months are open to all.

ITAL’s main page is at <http://www.lita.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/ital/italinformation.cfm>.

ITALica, the weblog discussion area for ITAL, has been updated with information about the latest issue. ITALica features supplementary materials not included with the regular print and electronic versions of /Information Technology and Libraries/, such as “letters to the editor”, updates to articles, and other materials we can’t work into the journal. One of the most important features of ITALica is a forum for readers’ conversations with our authors, wherein authors host and monitor discussion for a period of time after publication of their articles, so that you then have a chance to interact with them.

ITALica offers you the opportunity to discuss with the following ITAL authors their papers in the latest issue:

“‘Discovery’ Focus as Impetus for Organizational Learning” / Jennifer L. Fabbi

“Information Discovery Insights Gained from MultiPAC, a Prototype Library Discovery System” / Alex A. Dolski

“Usability as a Method for Assessing Discovery” / Tom Ipri, Michael Yunkin, and Jeanne M. Brown

“UNLV Special Collections in the Twenty-First Century” / Thomas Sommer

“Smartphones:  A Potential Discovery Tool” / Wendy Starkweather and Eva Stowers

“Building Pathfinders with Free Screen Capture Tools” / Patrick Griffis

“Enhancing OPAC Records for Discovery” / Patrick Griffis and Cyrus Ford

No membership is required to view or participate in ITALica. We hope to see you there!