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<p class="m_4692018102173705077gmail-MsoNormal"><span>ALA MEMBER ALERT</span></p>
<p class="m_4692018102173705077gmail-MsoNormal"><span>Do you agree that a library degree is essential for the Executive
Director of ALA?<span> </span>Please sign the
petition to reinstate this requirement. <span> </span>The degree required includes an </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">ALA-accredited Master's Degree or a
CAEP-accredited Master's Degree with a specialty in school library media. </span></p>
<p class="m_4692018102173705077gmail-MsoNormal"><span>Click on the link below to sign. Please re-post widely.</span></p>
<p class="m_4692018102173705077gmail-MsoNormal"><span>The great thing about this is that having this question on the
ballot all ALA Members will have the opportunity to officially express their
opinion on this subject.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="m_4692018102173705077gmail-MsoNormal"><span>After you login the page may seem a little odd. Go ahead and click
on that you want to sign the petition. When you do this the full petition
appears. You will then need to write out your full name and hit another button
to finish signing the petition.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="m_4692018102173705077gmail-MsoNormal"><span><a href="https://idp.ala.org/idp/Authn/UserPassword" target="_blank">https://idp.ala.org/idp/Authn/<wbr>UserPassword</a></span></p>
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<p class="m_4692018102173705077gmail-MsoNormal"><span>A little background:</span></p>
<p class="m_4692018102173705077gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Last month, in a rushed, unprecedented
online vote, ALA Council voted in favor of removing the requirement for the ALA
Executive Director to hold the MLS degree. ALA Council had just reaffirmed
the 2000 Council decision that the ALA Executive Director must have an MLS at
the 2017 Annual Conference.<span> </span>Just months
later they changed this position to preferred instead of required.</span></p>
<p class="m_4692018102173705077gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>And for you bureaucracy junkies
membership petitions are allowed according to the ALA Constitution, Article VI,
Section 4 c (<a href="http://www.ala.org/aboutala/governance/constitution/constitution" target="_blank">http://www.ala.org/aboutala/<wbr>governance/constitution/<wbr>constitution</a>).<span> </span>Yes, because this is a membership
organization we can overturn Council decisions.<span>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">Diedre Conkling</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Lincoln County Library District</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">P.O. Box 2027</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Newport, OR 97365</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Work email</span></i></span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt;font-style:normal">: </span></i><a href="mailto:diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><font color="#0000ff">diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org</font></span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Home email: </span></i></span></i><a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">diedre08@gmail.com</span></i></a></div>
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