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John Berry responded (LJ 12/14, p. 10) to a message from the Allied Professional Association (APA) to its counsel: "It is time to get on with the work [we] were created to do.... It is time to reinvent APA...to ensure that the nation knows how important libraries are to an informed citizenry." Berry refers to APA, but the sentiment can be extrapolated into its parent organization, [the American Library Association (ALA)]. Colleagues and I have been questioning the merit of having ALA, and those outside our profession are often surprised to learn there even exists such an organization. This is unfortunate. Even more unfortunate is that some of us no longer try to explain ALA to outsiders because, quite frankly, we are not certain of its role in our profession.