This year's ALA Annual Conference was supposed to have seen a smooth transition into the Allied Professional Association, a new arm of ALA designed to offer postgraduate professional certification, to advocate for pay equity, and to address other issues related to librarians' professional status. But instead, procedural squabbling supplanted governance action and stunted the APA's debut. The APA's growing pains, however, had little impact on the overall conference, held June 13-19 in Atlanta and distinguished by the strongest lineup of speakers in recent memory. Most celebrities who address librarians simply append a brief tribute to the profession (usually containing a fond recollection of their childhood librarian) to their standard packaged speech; instead, the three major speakers made libraries and the challenges they face an intrinsic part of their presentations.
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机译：预计今年的ALA年会已经顺利过渡到Allaed Professional Association，这是ALA的新机构，旨在提供研究生专业证书，倡导薪酬公平并解决与图书馆员的职业地位有关的其他问题。但是相反，程序争执取代了治理行动，阻碍了APA的首次亮相。然而，APA不断增长的痛苦对6月13日至19日在亚特兰大举行的整个会议影响不大，其特点是最近记忆中最强大的发言人阵容。大多数针对图书馆员的名人只是在其标准包装的讲话中简单地向该专业致敬（通常对他们的童年图书馆员怀有浓厚的回忆）。取而代之的是，三位主要演讲者提出了图书馆及其面临的挑战，这是他们演讲中必不可少的部分。
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