Bite me
David just brought an issue of American Libraries up from the mailbox. On the cover was a pasted-on insert proclaiming in panicked typography that it was my VERY LAST ISSUE unless I renew my ALA membership now, right away!
Ha. I only wish I could find the right address to send the sweet sentiment in the title of this post to.
ALA gets nothing from me. Not membership money, not time and effort, not publication, not conference attendance, certainly not conference participation. Not now, not ever. That’s what happens when you royally hack off the newbies, guys. I have thirty-some-odd years of career left to go, and ALA won’t benefit from a single solitary second of it.
If ALA had a whisker’s worth of relevance, mind you, that decision would hurt me too. Guess what. I don’t think it’s gonna.
I suppose some radical reinvention of the association might catch my interest again. Guess how likely I think that is.