[Libs-Or] Oregon ALA Members-Please Vote by Friday, April 23

[Suzanne Sager]

My apologies for any duplication.

Attention All Oregon ALA Members.

As of today, 4/21/10 of 55,330 eligible voters, only 9,875 (17.85%) have 
voted in the election.  This compares to 56,069 eligible voters last 
year with 11,280 (20.12%) voting.

Please cast your vote for Molly Raphael for President of ALA.  The last 
day to vote is April 23 and Molly Raphael believes that voter turnout 
will be the key to victory in this election.  Let's try to have 100% of 
Oregon ALA members turn out for Molly.  It's time we had an Oregonian 
lead our national Association.

Remember that the Oregon Library Association (OLA) Executive Board has 
unanimously voted to endorse Molly Raphael for ALA President.  According 
to Connie Anderson-Cahoon, OLA's President "it is wonderful to have a 
local candidate of Molly's caliber and I hope that you will join with me 
in supporting her candidacy".  Molly is recently retired after six years 
as the Director of Libraries at Multnomah County Library in Portland, 
Oregon.

Some of the reasons you should vote for Molly Raphael are her broad and 
deep knowledge of ALA and her experience in its governance at all 
levels; her long record of demonstrated leadership ability and 
experience; her extensive experience in working with government 
officials at the local, state and federal levels; her extensive 
experience with working with the media, both on and off the record; her 
long record of promoting ALA's core values (open access, intellectual 
freedom, and privacy) on the frontlines and through ALA; her championed 
diversity (in hiring, programming and outreach to underserved) and she 
received the Arthur Fleming Civil Rights Award; and she has built 
collaboratives across all types of libraries and community organizations.

Molly Raphael has truly walked the walk and will make an ideal ALA 
President. Please take the time to visit her website at 
http://mollyraphael.org as you seek to make an informed choice. There 
you will find complete details about her platform as well as her career 
experience and ALA service. You can also read endorsements of Molly's 
candidacy from many professional colleagues, including several recent 
ALA Past Presidents from all types of libraries.

Thank you,

Suzanne

Don't delay, vote for Molly today!

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Suzanne L. Sager
Library East, Cataloging
Portland State University

503-725-8169
503-725-5799
sagers at pdx.edu