I am reliably informed that there are people claiming that they have no idea how expensive ALA dues are. (That’s the American Library Association, if you weren’t aware.)
As a bit of continuing education, I am here offering the secret decoder ring guide to finding out the cost of ALA dues:
1. Choose a web search engine. I tried Bing, Google, Blekko, DuckDuckGo and StartPage.
2. Type the highly classified supersecret search string:
ala dues
You don’t need to put quotes around it, although it won’t hurt.
3. Hit Enter or click on whatever the search icon is.
If you chose DuckDuckGo or StartPage, you may have some odd ads at the top, but–at least for me, at least today–every single search engine yielded the same page as the first non-ad result.
This page, in case choosing a search engine, typing eight characters and hitting Enter is entirely too confusing.
That page has links for the types of membership (personal, organizational, divisional).
Clicking on one of the links brings up a page (or part of a page) with, gasp, the cost of dues.
Or, if clicking seems too complicated, you can scroll down that same page and see the cost of dues.
I know this is pretty advanced stuff, but I suspect you can figure it out.
There will not be a quiz.
