id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-9526 Fifarek, Aimee President's Column: Reflections on LITA's Past and Future 2016-09-30 3 .pdf application/pdf 1085 47 54 By the time of LITA’s founding at the 1966 Midwinter Meeting in Chicago, library automation had been in development for over a decade.3 MARC was just being invented, with the first tapes from the Library of Congress scheduled to go to the sixteen pilot libraries later that year. I am proud to be at the head of LITA as it begins to celebrate its 50th Anniversary year. cache/ital-9526.pdf txt/ital-9526.txt