Tuesday, March 12, 2019

ALA Elections 2019 [edited]

ALA ballots are coming out. I received mine, and have started working through the list.

There is a great guide to the election with candidate statements on the ALA web site. It is a great looking booklet, with a great description of Council including some of the pertinent actions taken over the past few years.

http://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/governance/alaelection/2019/elections-booklet-2019.pdf

There is a link on page 16 to the Council bio statements (PDF, 194 pages!):
http://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/governance/alaelection/2017/All%20Councilor%20bios%202017..pdf

And there is an Excel workbook on the main election page:

http://www.ala.org/aboutala/governance/alaelection
Here is a link to Andromeda Yelton's wonderful Council Candidate Sorter. (She has been doing this for several years now ... maybe 5 years?) The code behind it on GitHub (which I only very moderately understand...)
http://thatandromeda.github.io/ala_candidate_filter/2019_ala_council.html
The results will be posted April 10, 2019 on that last link above.

2 comments:

  1. I make a thing every year to help people filter that candidate bio list for people from particular divisions, RTs, ethnic caucuses, etc., in case reading the 194 pages is overload: http://thatandromeda.github.io/ala_candidate_filter/2019_ala_council.html

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    1. Thanks, Andromeda. I know that I have used it in the past, and that others have found it very, very useful. I might edit my post to make your link clickable, if that is OK with you.

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