ABA Board Candidate Petition Deadline March 18

Under the American Booksellers Association's bylaws, in addition to Board of Directors candidates put forth by ABA's Nominating Committee and approved by the Board (this year, Russ Lawrence of Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, Montana; Collette Morgan of Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis; and Michael Tucker of Books Inc. in San Francisco), any bookstore member may submit a petition for a director candidate. Upon receipt of a valid petition, the Nominating Committee will add the petitioned candidate's name to the director ballot to be mailed to bookstores in early April.

Should any bookstore member wish to submit a petition, the following apply:

• To be a candidate for the Board of Directors, one must be an employee/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 18, to Chair, ABA Nominating Committee, c/o ABA, 828 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY 10591.
• The names on the petition in support of the candidate must reflect at least two percent of the Bookstore Members as of January 1, 2005, which, for this year, would be a minimum of 36 signatures. The petition must contain original signatures, the name of the ABA member bookstore, addresses, and telephone numbers.
• The names on the petition in support of the candidate must come from at least five states, with representatives of no one state constituting more than 50 percent of the total number of petition signatures.

For more about the nomination of this year's Board candidates and the petition process, click here.