The primary LITA membership data for this report comes directly from ALA’s membership database and was pulled in October 2017. All data was added to a Google Sheet and collaboratively edited by the Membership Analysis Report Team of the 2018 LITA Assessment and Research Committee. The team used Google Data Studio, a free, web-based data visualization and report-building platform, to create a number of dynamic visualizations that answer a few key questions about the current LITA membership: