LEGISLATIVE UPDATE TIM DODGE, LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR Incoming ALLA President Emily Tish has graciously invited me to serve as Chair of the ALLA Legislative Development Committee. Over the next year I will be reporting on library-related legislative news in this capacity in addition to continuing to serve as ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) Chapters Council Legislative Network Representative. Some of you may recall I served as ALLA Legislative Development Co-Chair during the years 20052010, so I look forward to getting “back in the saddle again” to quote singing cowboy star Gene Autry (1939) (http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=o6dx8AfTmQk).
Jodi Poe, who served as ALLA Legislative Development Committee Chair for 2011-2012, reports that on April 3 at the (Library) Legislative Day event, ALLA combined with NAAL (the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries) and the AVL (Alabama Virtual Library) Taskforce to staff a table in the Alabama Statehouse next to one staffed by APLS (the Alabama Public Library Service). While public librarians had pictures taken of themselves with their state representatives while accepting quarterly checks, Jodi and others from NAAL and the AVL Task Force visited state representative offices and others to convey the im-
Jodi Poe’s report, along with that of Ann Marie Pipkin and Barbara Bowling (Alabama School Library Association representatives), and photos from 2012 Alabama Legislative Day may be found in the March/April issue of the ALLA Communicator at http://issuu.com/ALLA.Communicator/docs/ alla_communicator_march-april_2012/1.
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