Monday, April 16, 2018
One of the BEST librarians I met at ALA when I started attending in 1974 was a man named, Bernie Margolis. I remember the day as a new ALA councilor that I moved we cut the ALA conference by one day and Bernie, sitting next to me, seconded it. There were those that were not very happy with this proposal but Bernie knew the Bylaws and he walked them through all of it so they finally agreed we really needed to do this to help our conferences be shorter and help cut costs. The irony of all of that is that today, we are again trying to find ways to cut costs and still know our colleagues around the country and world and provide the training, learning and practicing we need as librarians.
MAY HE REST IN PEACE.
Kay K. Runge, Director Emeritus, Des Moines Public Library.
