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  • To serve as a source of information on recommended ethnic collections, services, and programs.
  • To organize task forces, institutes, and workshops to carry out the functions of the Round Table as defined in the petition.
  • To develop for Annual conferences forums and symposia programs that deal with the key issues of ethnicity and librarianship.
  • To maintain a liaison with the Office of Library Outreach Services and cooperate with other ALA units, including the caucuses in joint projects for the betterment of outreach services.
  • To disseminate the work of the Round Table through a program of publications

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First minitalk this semester: Libraries & Crisis / Sat Nov 27: Noah Lenstra on Putting Community First

  • 1.  First minitalk this semester: Libraries & Crisis / Sat Nov 27: Noah Lenstra on Putting Community First

    Posted Aug 26, 2022 04:10 PM

    This semester's weekly minitalks focus on Libraries and Crisis.  What does it look like?  How are libraries facing the situation?  Speakers will include researchers, librarians, and students from the US and elsewhere.  Most talks are Saturdays 11:30-noon central time.  For a full schedule, see http://publish.illinois.edu/minitalks/events.

     

    This Saturday, August 27, 11:30-Noon US Central Time, our first speaker is Noah Lenstra (PhD Illinois), Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, on "Putting Community First: A Crisis in Public Librarianship"

     

    Register in advance for the minitalk series (it's free):https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsd-6tqDooHdLF_-YMzb2ndDa3In2TmhAS

     

    Now in our eighth semester, the Libraries, Literatures, and Literacies Minitalks are hosted at the Illinois School of Information Sciences in partnership with the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs.  All interested parties are warmly encouraged to attend!

    -- 
Kate Williams, Associate Professor UIUC iSchool
    http://go.illinois.edu/katewill 
    Clara M. Chu, Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor
    https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/ 


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    Clara Chu
    Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor
    Mortenson Center, UIUC Library
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