Insel asked, in a PM, for references on parliamnetary procedure. I couldn't encourage the damned PM responder unit thingie hoozit to work. So here is my private reply, for all the world to see:

The Holy Bible is, of course, Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (10th Ed.), Henry M. Robert, III, William J. Evans, et al., Perseus Publishing, 2000.

The two introductory books which I recommend to the begnner are:

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Robert's Rules by Nancy Sylvester, Penguin, 2004.

and

Robert's Rules for Dummies (Dummies Series) by C. Alan Jennings, Wiley John & Sons, 2004.