March 11 Deadline for Director Candidate Petitions

Under the American Booksellers Association’s bylaws, besides candidates put forth by the Nominating Committee and approved by the Board, bookstore members may submit petitions to have additional director candidates added to the 2011 Board ballot. The deadline for petitions is March 11.

Upon receipt of a valid petition, the Nominating Committee will add the candidate’s name to the ballot to be sent via e-mail to ABA bookstore members at the end of March.

Should bookstore members wish to submit petitions, the following apply:

• A candidate must be an employee or owner of an ABA member bookstore. The member bookstore must be in good standing, and the individual candidate must have at least three years’ experience in a bookstore-member company.
• Each petition can present only one candidate.
• All petitions must be submitted by March 11, 2011, to the Chair, ABA Nominating Committee, c/o ABA, 200 White Plains Rd., Tarrytown, NY 10591.
• The names on the petition in support of the candidate must reflect at least two percent of ABA Bookstore Members as of January 1, 2011; that is a minimum of 28 signatures. The petition must contain original signatures and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of bookstore members in at least five states, with representatives of no one state constituting more than 50 percent of the total number of petition signatures.

Booksellers nominated as candidates by the ABA Board for the 2011 election are John Evans of DIESEL Bookstores in Malibu, Brentwood, and Oakland, California; Matt Norcross of McLean & Eakin Booksellers in Petoskey, Michigan; and Ken White of San Francisco State University Bookstore in San Francisco, California. White currently serves on the Board and is eligible for a second three-year term.