ALAO Info & stuff

Spring break has come and gone, and for me included five inches of snow. The first two hours of my Monday morning have been spent catching up electronically with email (did I really need 250 email in a week?) and blogs, as well as paper oriented with journals and student worker payroll. Two quick items of interest from ALAO this week; balloting is open for ALAO elections and the 2007 president's speaker has been announced on the 2007 conference website.

• ALAO Elections are under way and Thursday, March 22, is the deadline for casting your electronic ballot. If you are a current ALAO member, or on the ALAO list serv, notifications have arrived in your inbox from co-webmaster Frank Bove. Offices to be filled by this 2007 election are Vice President/President Elect, Treasurer, PR Coordinator, and at large Board members. Candidate statements are available on the ALAO web site, you must be a member to vote, and member login information is included in the email.

• ALAO's 2007 Conference web site, Innovation Generation, has two very interesting pieces of information posted. First, Joe Janes has been announced as the Presidents Program Speaker. This is a return engagement for Janes, I was lucky enough to hear him at the 2002 Conference and very much enjoyed his keynote address. Secondly, a call for proposals has been announced for the 2007 conference with a deadline for submissions of May 4, 2007.

Tags: ALAO, ALAO elections, 2007 ALAO Conference, Joe Janes