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AALT was established as a result of a challenge that Bill Manson, a Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) library instructor, issued to each SAIT library technician second year class. Every year he dared them to form their own organization and finally, the 1973-1974 graduating class accepted his challenge. Lead by Bernice Neufeld, the group researched the requirements of forming an association and the planning began. When some of the ground work was in place, meetings were held with other library technicians located primarily in Edmonton and Calgary. Then came the day that this informal group realized that they were ready for the next step, to gather as many technicians together as possible and to elect an executive and so, under the leadership of Bernice Neufeld, plans for the first annual conference were started. As Bernice stated in her article in a 1980 issue of the AALT Technician, "to start with I had no money, no experience, only grand ideas and believe me they were grand." The conference was held in Red Deer, Alberta on February 21 to 22, 1975 with 37 people attending the Annual General Meeting. The Alberta Association of Library Technicians was created and the first executive was elected with Judy Thomas as President, Jennifer Connors as 1st Vice President, Doreen Bills as 2nd Vice President, Carol Dubuc as Secretary, Carol Lukasiewich as Treasurer, and Kathy McNeely and Shirley Bateman as Councilors. ...

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