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| Not everyone is able to participate in and ask questions of the candidates at the presidential candidates' forum held annually during the ALA Midwinter Meeting. Anyone who couldn't be there had the opportunityparticipate by submitting YouTube videos to ask the candidates their questions. |
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| The purposes of the YouTube Candidates Forum are: |
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To give those who cannot attend the face-to-face forum at Midwinter an opportunity to ask the candidates questions |
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To complement the face-to-face forum |
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To increase members’ interest in the election and, we hope, stimulate greater voter participation |
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| The face-to-face forum and the YouTube forum will not intermingle--i.e., the face-to-face forum will proceed in its traditional format, presided over by ALA's immediate past president. The YouTube forum complements the Midwinter forum. |
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| Submission guidelines: |
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Questions were submitted as videos and posted to YouTube |
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Maximum running time for a video is 90 seconds |
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Every submission was tagged: ALAelection09 |
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The individual or group submitting a video was required to use their true name(s) |
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Anyone interested in the election and the candidates was welcome to submit questions |
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| Deadline for submissions: |
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| January 16, 2009 |
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| Selection of questions: |
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| Anyone who has access to the Internert and YouTube has had access to all questions that were submitted with the correct required tagging. |
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| Publicity for the showcase questions and the candidates' responses: |
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American Libraries Focus posted the full video forum online on the ALA Web site on Friday, March 6
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ALA's Public Information Office issued a press release and AL Online publicized the video forum |
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Emails to members announcing that the polls are open and reminder emails included the URL for the video forum on American Libraries Focus |
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