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16 Sep

ABA Board of Directors Nomination Deadline Approaches

There is still time to nominate candidates to serve on the American Booksellers Association Board of Directors. Any ABA member may submit nominations to the Nominating Committee, and all nominations will be held in the strictest confidence by the committee, which is chaired by Neal Coonerty of Bookshop Santa Cruz. Nominations must be received by October 6.

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16 Sep

Sanders Named Library Journal's 2003 Politician of the Year

Citing his pioneering work to protect libraries and their patrons from the sweeping new powers given to federal agents by Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, the Library Journal has named Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) its 2003 "Politician of the Year." The Congressman was nominated by librarians from his home state and across the country and is featured on the cover of the magazine's September 15 issue.

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15 Sep

Correction

In the article "MSIBA Trade Show Garners Positive Reviews" in the July 11 issue of BTW, the winner of the first ever MSIBA book award was Tim Gautreaux (The Clearing, Knopf).

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11 Sep

Revenue Survey Sent to Stores With Book Sense

On Wednesday, September 10, bookstores participating in the Book Sense marketing program were sent an e-mail requesting a response to ABA's semi-annual sales revenue survey. ABA is encouraging all stores to respond to the survey, whose results provide the association with a picture of how its members are performing and enables ABA to answer questions from the press and other interested parties about the performance of independent bookstores.

All responses are kept confidential.

A response to the survey is requested by September 24.

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