The American Library Association (ALA), returning to pleasant San Antonio for its Midwinter Meeting for the first time since 2000, approved some important steps to organizational progress, notably a strategic plan with a dues increase. It also found itself in the midst of political arguments, some by design, such as public lobbying for revisions to the USA PATRIOT Act, and others by accident, when author Andrei Codrescu decided to use his platform at the ALA President's Program to criticize the organization's stance on the "independent librarians" of Cuba.
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