[3] Some societies choose to have one of their own main meetings as part of the ALA conference,[4] and many sessions of the conference are sponsored by member societies.
[5] There are no plenary sessions at the conference, but seven or eight simultaneous events in each time slot.
[3] The ALA has an executive board and a "Council of American Authors Societies", which represents the member organizations.
The executive director is Alfred Bendixen, who has held this post since the association's beginnings in 1989.
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