EMIERT (Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table)

EMIERT has partnered with Literacy Nation to support their RIGHT TO READ-A-THON.  "In the pursuit of "Literacy and Justice for All,"  LiteracyNation-ALA, along with Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT), Black Caucus American Library Association (BCALA), Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table (CSKBART), Joint Council of Librarians of Color (JCLC), and Pennsylvania Black Librarians Caucus are pleased to announce" this important opportunity.

On Saturday, June 24, 2023, 8:30 am - 3:00 pm at the Hilton Chicago Hotel, 720 S. Michigan Avenue (and online), members of the library community will join together to "demonstrate a commitment to the freedom to read and the right of open access to information. All proceeds from this fundraising event will be donated to the LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Foundation.  As a member of EMIERT, you have been invited to read  during our designated hour.  Below is EMIERT's unique link to Sign Up.  Slots are on a first come first serve basis.  Participates are asked to read for 5 minutes in person, via Zoom, or via video.  Indicate if you plan to read via Zoom, video, or in person in the comments. If you are doing a video, upload it to Youtube or Vimeo.  Please send your video link to Andrea Jamison via aqjamis@ilstu.edu no later than June 12th, so that we can forward it to our friends at Literacy Nation.  

If slots for EMIERT are full, you can still register to read independently via the Literacy Nation https://literacynationinc.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-linkindex="1">website (please see rules for registration). If you are unable to read but would like to make a personal donation to Literacy Nation, please visit the following https://literacynationinc.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-linkindex="2">website via https://literacynationinc.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-linkindex="3">https://literacynationinc.org/

"All proceeds from this fundraising event will be donated to the LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Foundation. The LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund was established in 1970 as a special trust, in memory of Dr. LeRoy C. Merritt. It is devoted to the support, maintenance, medical care, and welfare of librarians who, in the Trustees' opinion, are:

"Denied employment rights or discriminated against on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, age, disability, or place of national origin; or denied employment rights because of defense of intellectual freedom; that is, threatened with loss of employment or discharged because of their stand for the cause of intellectual freedom, including promotion of freedom of the press, freedom of speech, the freedom of librarians to select items for their collections from all the world's written and recorded information, and defense of privacy rights." (ALA.org)"