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ALA Presidential Candidates
Forum and Reception
Hear the issues, discuss your concerns and share a glass of wine with the
candidates; Charles Beard, Director of Libraries, West Georgia College;
Ching-chih Chen, Associate Dean at Simmons College Graduate School of Library
and Information Science, Boston; and Barbara Ford, Director of University
Library Services, Virginia Commonwealth University
In preparation for the upcoming three way race for the Presidency of the
American Library Association and the ALA Conference that will be held here in
New York City this summer, an exciting Candidates Forum is being planned while
the balloting is in process!
This program is co-sponsored by: ACRL/NY (The Association of College and
Research Libraries/New York); LACUNY (The Library Association of the City
University of New York); METRO (The New York Metropolitan Reference and Research
Library Agency); and NYLA,(The New York Library Association).
DATE: Monday, April 29, 1996
TIME: 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
followed by questions and a reception
4:30 to 5:00
PLACE: METRO Headquarters
57 East 11th Street, 4th Floor
Between Broadway & University
New York, New York 10003
To learn more about each candidate, visit their Web sites as follows:
Ching-chih Chen: http://www.simmons.edu/~cchen/ALA president.html
Charles Beard: http://www.westga.edu/library/cbeard.html
Barbara Ford: http://www.uic.edu/~nrj/Barbara_Ford.html
Some of you may receive your ALA ballots prior to April 29th. This program will
help you to vote for the candidate of your choice. ALA presidents sometimes win
by under 50 votes...so your vote is very important in this contest!!! Hope to
see you there.
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