It's official. After all the kerfuffle (here and here), and now that the PLA presentation is over, I finally took the plunge and became a member of the American Library Association. I considered joining a few different divisions, but ultimately went just with YALSA so that I could cast votes for all of the great stuff that Beth Gallaway and other enthusiastic supporters are doing within that group. Plus, I want to go to their cool gaming events this year and next!

So we'll see what this year of membership brings. My reasons for joining are still the same, except that now I can add Leslie Burger's upcoming presidency, the forward strides the organization is taking with the upcoming Library 2.0 course (a self-serving reason, I know, but I would see it as a positive step no matter who was acting as faculty for it), the great support we've received (both in-house and externally) for the ALA TechSource Blog, and the truly interesting ALA person that just might try blogging (she's still great, even if she doesn't manage to blog, and she gives me hope for continued progress at ALA because she "gets" it).

More pictures when my card arrives via snail mail!