Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL)Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) is a refereed journal published quarterly by Core (formerly published by ALA Library & Information Technology Association).
Published quarterly, with topic areas that include but are not limited to library automation, digital libraries, metadata, identity management, distributed systems and networks, computer security, intellectual property rights, technical standards, geographic information systems, desktop applications, information discovery tools, web-scale library services, cloud computing, digital preservation, data curation, virtualization, search-engine optimization, emerging technologies, social networking, open data, the semantic web, mobile services and applications, usability, universal access to technology, library consortia, vendor relations, and digital humanities.
ISSN 2163-5226. Previous ISSN – before journal moved to open access with issue 31 (2012) – was ISSN 0730-9295. ITAL is the successor to the
Journal of Library Automation (JOLA, ISSN 0022-2240), published from 1968-1981.