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| | ALA | LITA's First Twenty-Five Years |
 | | A major organizational unit was needed that would provide a forum for discussion, undertake a vigorous program to disseminate information, foster studies and research, and promote the development of appropriate standards. |
 | | The division also had no members. Naively, I bad hoped that those who had already sent in their dues for 1966 could elect additional membership in the new division, and that those who had not yet paid their dues could sign up when they did. |
 | | Even more importantly, its new organization, built around the mechanism of specific interest groups, will allow it to grow and change in the future, discarding gracefully those organizational elements that are obsolete and no longer needed, and acting swiftly to meet the new and emerging needs of its members and the profession. |
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