Editorial: The Space in Between, or, Why ITAL Matters

摘要

In my opinion, ITAL has an identity crisis. It seems to try in many ways to be scholarly like JASIST, but LITA simply isn't as formal a group as ASIST. On the other end of the spectrum, Code4Lib is very dynamic, infor-mal and community-driven. ITAL kind of flops around awkwardly in the space in between. Last December and January, you, the readers of Information Technology and Libraries were invited to participate in a survey aimed at helping us to learn your likes and dis-likes about ITAL, and where you'd like to see this journal go in terms of several important questions. The responses provide rich food for reflection about ITAL, its readers, what we do well and what we don't, and our future directions.