A May 28 press release on the ALA site advises us that ALA and Walgreens are “partnering” to “bring Medicare information to libraries.” Although corporate partnerships can play a positive role for ALA, it concerns me that the Walgreen “partnership” places ALA (and participating libraries) in the role of uncritically promoting the Medicare Drug Discount […]
Posted yesterday to the ALA Council list: “Following up on our discussions over the last several months, we have arranged for wireless internet connections in the Orange County Convention Center to be offered to the ALA Executive Board and Council during the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando.” ALA is ponying up $4,000 for 200 logins, […]
CLA member Patty Wong was the leading vote-getter. Congrats to all who ran, whether or not you won–it’s good to see people take an interest in the association. Thanks to Ruth Seid for the Excel version of this election report. PATRICIA PATTY WONG 3354 Elected KEN HAYCOCK 3134 Elected BERNARD A. MARGOLIS 3087 Elected ANN […]
Turnout up, E-ballots carry the day! It’s great to see more people participating in the governance of the association. Ballots Cast, 2003 9,844 Ballots Cast, 2004 12,562 # Increase 2,718 % Increase 27.6% # E-ballots Cast 2004 10,614 % E-ballots Cast 2004 84.5% # P-ballots Cast 1,948 % P-ballots Cast 15.5% P-ballots distributed 2003 55,484 […]
(Updated: note percent increase from last year already over 20%. Thanks to ALA Councilor Jim Casey for catching the error!) Man oh man, do I love voter turnout. The ALA election is going gangbusters! Put your peepers on the latest stats, and tell everyone who hasn’t voted to get to it before Sunday night, April […]
The turnout for the ALA election has now surpassed 2003’s turnout! Here’s a PDF I cranked from Excel, which I used to quickly run the numbers; it has ALA election turnout data from March 23. The ALA election turnout rate is also a little higher than I predicted, with most of the pick-up in the […]
I had been glum (and puzzled) about what appeared to be a sudden and steep drop in turnout in this year’s ALA election. However, I had made a crucial error–I had mixed up the total ballots submitted with just the e-ballots. Turnout is on track! If we sustain the participation rate of a little over […]
The rate of submission is predictably slowing; the question is whether the rate of submission will slow even further. In the last six days, ALA has received only about 250 ballots (as of April 3, we had 6,756 ballots submitted). All ballots must be received by April 25. From ALA: —————————————– As of April 8, […]
The following eloquent letter to ALA comes from the Office of Literacy and Outreach Services (also by way of the Council list): ———————————- To: Mr. Fiels, Ms. Hayden, Ms. Brey, Ms. Grady, and Ms. Sheketoff: The Advisory Committee of the Office for Literacy and Outreach Services urges ALA and ALA-APA to take a public stand […]
I’m forwarding the following message from the ALA Council list, where it was distributed by OLOS (ALA’s Office of Literacy and Outreach Services) . Go GLBTRT! ——————————————— Dear Mr. Fiels, Ms. Hayden, Ms. Brey, Ms. Grady, and Ms. Sheketoff: The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table (GLBTRT) urges ALA and ALA-APA to take a […]