This September 2018 issue of ITAL continues our celebration of the journal’s 50 th anniversary with a column by former Editorial Board member Mark Dehmlow, who highlights the technological changes beginning to stir the library world in the 1980s. The seeds of change planted in the 1970s are germinating, but the explosive growth of the 1990s is still a few years away.

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编者的信（2018年9月）

ITAL的2018年9月号继续庆祝该杂志成立50周年，前编辑委员会成员Mark Dehmlow专栏撰文，重点介绍了1980年代开始引起图书馆界轰动的技术变革。1970年代播下的变革种子正在发芽，但1990年代的爆炸式增长还需要几年的时间。