EMIERT (Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table)

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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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Please join ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table on 11/15/2023 for "Intellectual Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Praxis in Librarianship and Education"

  • 1.  Please join ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table on 11/15/2023 for "Intellectual Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Praxis in Librarianship and Education"

    Posted Oct 24, 2023 06:05 AM

    Please join ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table for "Intellectual Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Praxis in Librarianship and Education"

    https://www.ala.org/rt/srrt/events

    Register

    Date & Time: Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 12:00–1:30 pm Central Time. Online, via Zoom

    Event description: Intensified battles around book bans, censorship, public and school library funding, Critical Race Theory, African American Studies pedagogy, gender identity, and sexual orientation are at fever pitch across the country, raising critical questions about the nature of intellectual freedom, the purpose of literacy and education, the dissemination of information, and the interrelationships among them. The pervasiveness of these issues also illuminates how race and racism continues to structure key conversations and contexts about information access, pedagogy, and the historical record. 

    What is behind this most recent wave of the longstanding challenges to intellectual freedom, historical reckoning, and "dangerous ideas" in America? How does it connect or stand apart from previous repression and suppression of information, literacy, and history? And how can the related professions of librarianship and education inform one another's efforts to uphold information access, historical integrity, and democratic principles? This panel will dig into these key questions and help contextualize, inform, and ignite our collective understanding and advocacy in these areas. Please join us!

    Panelists:

    • Nicole Cooke, Augusta Baker Endowed Chair, School of Information Science, University of South Carolina

    • Carolyn Foote, Co-Founder, FReadom Fighters

    • Johannah Genett, Deputy Director, Hennepin County Library

    • Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, University of California, Los Angeles

    This event is free and open to the public. 

    Please email Rachel Rosekind for more information: rosekindness@gmail.com.

    Register



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    Rachel Rosekind
    Educator, Editor, Writer, Activist, Library Commissioner
    Write You Are / Contra Costa Library Commission
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