Since LITA's birth, participating in both ALA and independent annual conferences played a major part in promoting LITA's mission, which was to provide forums for individuals in the library community to converge and collaborate on subjects related to technological change in libraries. Typically with sponsored participation, LITA was involved in several conferences since the 1960s such as COLA, the LITA Forum, the annual ALA Midwinter Meeting, and the ALA Annual Conference, and participated in conferences like the "Airlie Conference" in 1970 as well as a conference titled "Directions in Education for Information Science: A Symposium for Educators" in 1971.
