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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hello –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Elections for the American Library Association and its divisions and roundtables will start soon. If you are a member of ALA, please plan
to vote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For the first time in about 20 years, there are 4 candidates for the position of President-elect of ALA. They are:
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Joseph Janes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">JP Porcaro<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">James LaRue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Julie Todaro<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">These candidates participated in a forum at the Midwinter Conference in Chicago. Video of the forum is available at
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQkLGF64eFk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQkLGF64eFk</a>. Additional candidate information is available via the ALA Election Information page at
<a href="http://www.ala.org/aboutala/governance/alaelection">http://www.ala.org/aboutala/governance/alaelection</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ALA staff provided the following list of candidates from Ohio for positions in ALA and its divisions and Roundtables. You will see the candidate’s
name, the ballot on which you’ll find them listed, and the position they are seeking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mary Frances Burns, ALA Councilor-At-Large<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chuck Gibson, ALA Councilor-At-Large<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Andrew P. Stuart, ACRL-STS, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Masha Stepanova, ACRL-SEES, Secretary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Katie Gibson, ACRL-WESS, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dracine Hodges, ALCTS-AS, Member-At-Large<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Robin L. Gibson, ALSC, 2017 Wilder Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kathleen Marie Webb LLAMA-BES Secretary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Felton Thomas, Jr., PLA, President-elect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">David Lincove, RUSA, Division Councilor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Julia Warga, IFRT, Director-At-Large<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Alenka Chadwick, RMRT, Director (Two-Year Term)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Virginia Ellis Palmer, RMRT, Director (Two-Year Term)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Please also feel free to forward this other Ohio library listserves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Pamela J. Hickson-Stevenson, Ohio Chapter Councilor to ALA and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#E36C0A">The Akron-Summit County Public Library provides resources for learning and leisure, information services, meeting spaces, and programs for all ages that support,
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