Almost a Founding Member? But What the Heck, AALL Has Joined the Owners' Rights Initiative

In the recent flurry of AALL web communities postings on this matter, one time-stamped October 29, 2012 at 11:20 AM in the Members Open Forum announced that "[l]ast week the AALL Executive Committee approved a request from the Copyright Committee for AALL to join the Owners' Rights Initiative." Based on earlier web community messages, my hunch is the decision was made late last week as in the afternoon of Oct. 25 or on Oct. 26. Along with founding members ALA and ARL when ORI was officially launched on Oct. 23, 2012, AALL is now listed as an ORI member. [JH]