<div dir="ltr"><div><b>Please VOTE!</b><br><br><font size="2"><b>The last day to vote in the ALA Election is April 4.</b></font><br><br></div>The statistics on Monday, March 26 showed that only 14.15% of ALA Members have voted. A very abysmal number.<br><div><div><br>If you are an ALA member you should have received several messages by now from ALA Election Coordinator. If you haven't seen one of these messages please check your email spam.<br><br>The message will include a link to this pdf, <a href="http://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/governance/alaelection/2018/elections-booklet-2018.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.<span class="m_-5775537624427106121gmail-il">ala</span>.org/aboutala/si<wbr>tes/<span class="m_-5775537624427106121gmail-il">ala</span>.org.aboutala/files/con<wbr>tent/governance/alaelection/<wbr>2018/<span class="m_-5775537624427106121gmail-il">elections</span>-booklet-2018.<wbr>pdf</a><br></div><div>Some people have been confused by the language on the ALA Executive Director search question. Here is the easy explanation:<br><br>
<div><div><b>Are you confused by the ALA Ballot and how to vote on the ALA Executive Director requirement?</b><br><br></div>Vote YES if you think the MLIS (or equivalent) should be <u>required </u>for the next ALA Executive Director.<br><br></div>Vote NO if you don't think the MLIS should be required
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<div style="font-family:Helvetica;word-spacing:1px" dir="auto"><font size="2">If you are having a hard time with the long list of people running for ALA Council please remember you have a stronger vote if you just vote for a few people that you know would do good work on ALA Council. I seldom vote for more that 7 and this year only voted for 4. You really don't need to vote for 33 people and you probably shouldn't vote for that many. <br><br>This easy tool created by
Andromeda Yelton that allows you to view membership information for this
year's Councilor-at-Large candidates. You can limit to Divisions, Round Tables, sections of the country, etc., <a href="https://thatandromeda.github.io/ala_candidate_filter/2018_ala_council.html" target="_blank">https://thatandromeda.github.<wbr>io/ala_candidate_filter/2018_<wbr>ala_council.html</a><br><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;word-spacing:1px"><font size="2"><b>Please vote today.</b><br><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;word-spacing:1px"><font size="2">#votelibrarian2018<br></font></div>
<br clear="all"><div><br>-- <br><div class="m_-5775537624427106121gmail_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: <a href="tel:(541)%20265-3066" value="+15412653066" target="_blank">541-265-3066</a></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.<wbr>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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