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• W235469132 abstract "I was born on November 4. I am an election baby. I was born on a Wednesday, but in year I was born, there was not a U.S. general election. Those only happen on Tuesday after first Monday of November from November 2 through November 8 in even-numbered years. (1) I was born in an odd year. Since turn of twenty-first-century, U.S. general election has fallen on my birthday twice already. I cannot think of elections without thinking of my birthday. As a child, one form of free and educational entertainment in which my family engaged, when my birthday was on election day, was watching election returns come in at Huron County (Ohio) Courthouse. We did this after a celebratory birthday dinner at Kentucky Fried Chicken. The courthouse is a majestic building with an imposing bell tower that sits right in center of downtown Norwalk, Ohio. You can see for yourself in Wikipedia or just Google it to look at other courthouse images. (2) We climbed imposing steps to second floor to watch flurry of activity surrounding elections. It was all very exciting--all this fuss just for my birthday. I remember election board officials handed out small patriotic tokens like Ohio flags to children and party officials gave out leftover buttons and rulers with their party's campaign slogans. I still have a wooden ruler from 1960 election. I also seem to remember donuts--and cider--even though I really associate those with Halloween parade a few days before. Maybe they were just leftover, too. When I was young, I wanted to be a senator. Instead, I am proud to say I became president of RUSA. There was an election involved. I have both a bachelor's and master's degree in political science--all because I was born in first week of November. It's funny how when you were born affects who you become. I am a Scorpio. According to one astrological website, the curiosity of Scorpios is immeasurable, which may be why they are such adept investigators. These folks love to probe and know how to get to bottom of things. (3) Ah, so this is why I became a reference librarian. It also is probably why it takes me so long to write these columns--curiosity gets best of me and Web provides so many fascinating distractions. Case in point: For this editorial, I actually looked up biography of architect of Huron County Courthouse, Vernon Redding, to discover that he also built a number of Carnegie Libraries in Ohio. (4) I digress. So, as you can see, elections and voting have always been very important to me. This issue of RUSQ will come out just before 2010 ALA elections. So I want to take this opportunity to encourage you to vote. One of privileges and, yes, responsibilities of membership in RUSA is to vote. Effective governance of associations requires participation of its members. Voting provides us with opportunity to shape our association. Even if you are not able to participate on RUSA committees or attend conferences, our election is one place where you can actively participate and make a difference. Your vote does count. I can't tell you how many elections I have seen in RUSA where elections were won or lost by just one vote, much to amazement, incredulity, and disappointment of candidates. In 2009 RUSA elections, there were three very tight races. One candidate won by one vote for a member-at-large position. Two chair positions were won by less than a 3 percent margin. This illustrates that two candidates were well matched, but it also demonstrates that each vote is important. Our electoral participation rate as a division is 23.9 percent. This is comparable to ALA's participation rate of 23.4 percent. (5) See table 1 to see how our members vote in each of our division's sections. The point is, I expect you to vote in next election. You will select members to represent your views and opinions. …" @default.
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