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INTRODUCTION
All members of AALL are urged to read the attached
petition to stop the vote on the proposed dues increase at
the AALL Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh. If you agree with
the petition, please download the document and sign it or
contact your AALL Chapter President who also has a copy
which can be signed. Then send the signed petition to
John C. Fox at Lord, Bissell & Brook Library, 115 S. LaSalle
Street, Chicago, IL. 60603.
RE: PETITION TO STOP THE VOTE ON THE PROPOSED DUES INCREASE
AT THE AALL ANNUAL MEETING IN PITTSBURGH UNTIL IT CAN
BE SUBMITTED TO THE AALL MEMBERSHIP BY MAIL BALLOT
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We, as members of AALL, the Chicago Association of Law
Libraries and other Chapters of AALL present this petition
to the Executive Board of AALL to stop the vote on the
proposed dues increase at the AALL Annual Meeting in
Pittsburgh until it can be submitted to the entire
membership by mail ballot.
We believe that a vote on a dues increase at the
business meetings in Pittsburgh does not provide all AALL
members with the opportunity to express their opinion on the
proposal, because attendance at the Annual Meeting is
usually less than half of the total membership of AALL.
We are not necessarily against a dues increase, but we
do believe that a better method for deciding that issue
would be to vote on the proposed dues increase by a mail
ballot. By using that method, everyone would be given an
opportunity to vote on the issue. Both the American Library
Association and the Special Library Association vote on
proposed dues increases by a mail ballot. It seems
reasonable that AALL consider adopting a similar procedure.
We request that the vote on the proposed dues increase
be postponed until it can be submitted to the entire
membership by mail ballot.
SIGNATURE SECTION
I am posting this for John Fox, past president of Chicago Association of
Law Libraries.
FRANK DRAKE
Arnstein & Lehr
CHICAGO
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