Food for Thought: A robust Association requires a healthy course of democracy.

CORPORATE culture; ACADEMIC libraries; PUBLIC libraries; LIBRARIES; RURAL conditions; PRACTICAL politics; SCHOOL libraries; LIBRARY associations

The author reflects on the lessons she learned as she moves into the final quarter of her term as president of the American Library Association (ALA). She discusses the lessons she learned about the profession, her strategy when teaching a classroom of students about something that may seem boring, and the lesson she learned at her first training session with ALA Parliamentarian Adrian Stratton.