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- Subject: [LM_NET] AASL/YALSA members: Need Help with filling my ALA Ballot (long)
- From: Sara Kelly Johns <sarakellyjohns@YAHOO.COM>
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 13:45:36 -0700
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Hi, all,
I’m on vacation in Florida where it has been low 80’s
and sunny the whole week. We people from the North
need that badly!
It’s given me some time to attend to some important
details like my ALA/AASL/YALSA ballot due by 4/22. It
is VERY important that all eligible AASL and YALSA
voters cast ballots! Our return rate was sadly low in
the last election. AASL and ALA Executive Board member
Terri Kirk has written a terrific motivational article
for Knowledge Quest that is listed with the current
KQWeb issue at the address below and is featured as a
link from the front page of the AASL web page:
<http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/kqweb/kqarchives/v33/333Kirk.htm>
I’m using the online ballot and have logged on a few
times but still haven’t “finished.” We’re allowed to
vote for 36 ALA Councilors-at-Large and I’m not there
yet. I hate to waste a vote--and that’s where you all
can help. Below are people I’ve currently chosen and
their categories for me. Then there is a list of
people I don’t know. If you know any of them and want
to recommend a vote, please reply to this post. If you
know any of the people I’ve listed as potential votes
and think I should NOT vote for them, please reply
privately. The lists are not in priority order, they
scrambled like the ballots are.
(BTW, from the ALA Elections FAQ’s, if you were a paid
member on 1/31 and haven't received a requested ballot
by April 1, call ALA Membership and Customer Service
at 800-545-2433, press 5 or send email to
membership@ala.org. They will confirm voting
eligibility and send a replacement ballot, if
necessary).
School people I know:
Eugene Hainer
Barbara K. Stripling
Drucilla (Drucie Raines) Gullion
Erlene Bishop Killeen
Ann Carlson Weeks
Dee Gwaltney
David Loertscher
Sylvia Norton
Dennis J. Leloup
Toni Negro
Clara L. Sitter
Eva Efron
Children or school librarians, some of whom I know:
Nick Buron
Lisa Von Drasek
Kathy East Randall Enos
Vivian R. Wynn CD McLean
Margaret L. Kirkpatrick Melanie Huggins
Toni Bernardi Kathy Lehman
Mary Berry
People who are New Yorkers or were notable ALA
Councilors when I was on Council
Barbara A. Genco Jan Sanders
Tom Hennen Robert Hubsher
M.A. (Peg) Oettinger Peter McDonald
Julie A. Cummins Monika Antonelli
Khafre K. Abif Mary Biblo
Mary Long Michael J. Miller
Mable W. Robertson Ling Hwey Jeng
People I don’t know (who may be good people. Know
them?):
Alison C. Morin Mary Mcinroy
Diane M. Fay Marcellus Turner
Kathleen E. Bethel Tom Hennen
Samuel E. Trosow
Carolyn Lowe Garnes
Rory Litwin Jane Sessa
Feili Tu Karen Danczak Lyons
Rosanne Cordell Susan Scheiberg
Stephen Crowley Carol Ritzen Kem
Shelby Harken
Wei Jeng-Chu
Sherrie Schmidt
Pamela C. Sieving
Kayne Ferrier Karen Letarte
Virginia Sanchez Bill Ptacek
Larry Grieco Brad Eden
Barbara Silverman Ann Campion Riley
Margie Thomas Barbara Pickell
Monique Le Conge (Aka Monique King)
William D. Paullin
Theresa A. Tobin Lace Keaton
Stephanie Schmitt Brenda
Pruitt-Annisette
Diane G. Person
Frank Bruno
Diedre (Dee) Conkling Dale Poulter
Pamela Bonnell-Mihalis Daniel Mack
Clara Nalli Bohrer Diane Duquette
Norman J. Eriksen Ana-Elba Pavon
Charles E. Kratz Barbara Cole
Donald L. Roalkvam Lorraine Smith
Bonnie Kunzel Barbara Webb
Patricia Gail Oyler Nancy Pack
Audra Caplan
YALSA: the only person I know personally who is
running for a YALSA committee is Terry Young, who
compiled School Libraries Work for Scholastic, among
other accomplishments
2007 Margaret A. Edwards Award Committee Young,
Terry
AASL President is tough; Bonnie Grimble and her
nominations committee named two people that I know
well and greatly respect, Gail Dickinson and Cyndi
Phillips.
ALA president is also hard because I don’t know either
candidate but did hear them speak to the AASL
Affiliate Assembly and AASL Board and, on the basis of
their statements to both groups, I have to agree with
AASL Pres.-Elect J Linda William’s endorsement of
Leslie Berger (used with permission):
Dear Friends:
I urge you to vote for Leslie Burger for president of
ALA.
When both candidates spoke to the AASL executive board
and the AASL affiliate assembly at the midwinter
conference, it was clear by their responses that
Leslie understood the needs of the library media
specialists community.
She has served in a variety of library settings--state
library, regional library system, public library,
consultant for all types of libraries--and excelled
in all of them.
Currently the director of the Princeton (NJ) public
library, Leslie is committed to diversity in staffing
and in the people the library serves, innovative
library service, and creative solutions.
Leslie is deeply committed to improving salaries of
library workers and currently serves on the ALA-allied
Professional Association Salaries Committee. She made
a substantial contribution to the successful ALA-APA
video, “Working@yourlibrary--for love or money."
As president of the New Jersey Library Association she
initiated a salary survey that has served as a
prototype for salary surveys everywhere.
I firmly believe that Leslie will continue and build
upon the progressive leadership that the ALA
presidency has brought to the association in recent
years.
Leslie's ability to listen, complemented by her sense
of humor, intelligence and high level of energy,
enables her to connect with ideas and people and find
a smart, inclusive solution.
I urge you to vote for Leslie for ALA president so
that ALA and its members can have visionary leadership
at a critical moment for the future of libraries. And
Iwould appreciate your passing this message on to your
staff and sharing it with friends and colleagues.
For more information about Leslie Burger for
president, see <http://lb.princetonlibrary.org/> You
will find Leslie’s platform at
<http://lb.princetonlibrary.org/platform.htm>
J. Linda Williams
Director, Library Media Services
Anne Arundel County Public Schools
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Phone - 410-222-1020
Fax - 410-721-4423
If you made it all the way to the bottom of this post,
thanks for “listening.” It would not not have taken
too many more AASL and YALSA votes to have Barbara
Stripling as our incoming ALA President and she would
have been outstanding.
Best, Sara Kelly Johns
Lake Placid Middle/Senior HS LMC
34 School Street
Lake Placid, NY 12946
518-523-2474, ext. 4132
FAX: 518-523-4861
johns@northnet.org
SaraKJohns@aol.com
"Information is the currency of democracy." -- Thomas Jefferson
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