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Fwd: "This is Not a Dress Rehearsal": U.S. Engaged in Massive Military Buildup as Threat To Bomb Iran Grows

Posted By Al Kagan Feb 18, 2026 08:35 PM
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FYI, 80-90% chance of war with Iran. Al Begin forwarded message: From: "Jeremy Scahill " Subject: "This is Not a Dress Rehearsal": U.S. Engaged in Massive Military Buildup as Threat To Bomb Iran Grows Date: February 18, 2026 at 3:12:08 PM CST To: akagan@illinois.edu Reply-To: "Jeremy Scahill ...

RE: Sad news to share: Passing of Charles E. Kratz, Jr.

Posted By Al Kagan Feb 17, 2026 07:36 PM
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Charles was a longtime ALA Councilor. He got heavily involved in SRRT when he became very frustrated and upset at the direction that the Council was leading the association. He stepped up to be SRRT Coordinator, then SRRT Treasurer, and then Co-Coordinator again. He also worked hard in the Round Table ...

Intellectual Freedom Office

Posted By Al Kagan Feb 10, 2026 10:10 PM
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I just read the ALA Executive Board minutes from their January meetings. I had not seen mentioned elsewhere that they moved the Intellectual Freedom Office in Chicago under the Public Policy Advisory Office in DC. I suppose that means that they will not hire a new director for the office since the previous ...

RE: ACTION COUNCIL DELETED?

Posted By Al Kagan Feb 03, 2026 06:30 PM
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As we know, SRRT will have to amend its bylaws to accommodate the new election mandates. Even though the current structure will be negated, I don’t see any reason why we could not reconstitute the Action Council with the 4 elected officials and continue to have representatives chosen by each task force. ...

RE: DRAFT minutes to SRRT-AC meeting last week

Posted By Al Kagan Feb 03, 2026 02:21 PM
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Thanks Elaine. Lisa is Lisa Gieskes. Al

Historical membership statistics

Posted By Al Kagan Feb 03, 2026 11:12 AM
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For those interested in year by year round table membership statistics since 2003, Hilary Person, our ALA staff liaison, shared the chart linked below. "I'm sharing this chart which is a quarterly Membership Summaries from our membership team. It shows historical RT membership stats. This will be updated ...

Round table membership report and comparison

Posted By Al Kagan Feb 03, 2026 10:34 AM
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Greetings all, Here are the latest large round table membership statistics as of December 2025. I am sorry to report that SRRT has again fallen, down to the 7th largest round table. The only large round table to gain membership over the past year is the Intellectual Freedom Round Table. All the others ...

RE: NEXT WEEK: Wed., Feb. 4, 2026 Action Council Special Meeting

Posted By Al Kagan Feb 01, 2026 03:04 PM
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Mark, I agree with you in principle and I raised this very issue some months ago. How can SRRT follow the new election mandate which is in contradiction to its bylaws, and new bylaws at that? We appealed to the ALA Executive Board to pause implementation of the mandate because the round tables were not ...

NEXT WEEK: Wed., Feb. 4, 2026 Action Council Special Meeting Attachments

Posted By Al Kagan Feb 01, 2026 09:32 AM
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RE: NEXT WEEK: Wed., Feb. 4, 2026 Action Council Special Meeting

Posted By Al Kagan Feb 01, 2026 09:32 AM
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Good morning all, Thank you to the Co-Coordinators for setting up this special SRRT Action Council meeting. I think there are several issues that need to be discussed regarding elections since the mandate from the ALA Executive Board and ALA Council negates the current SRRT bylaws on the matter. ...

SRRT Membership statistics

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 30, 2026 12:15 PM
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So far I have received only the SRRT membership statistics for December 2025 from Hillary. I have asked for the compete round table and division statistics report that we used to get on a regular basis. That report makes it possible to compare what is going on with all the round tables, and especially ...

RE: Today's Action Council meeting

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 29, 2026 03:07 PM
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Mary, Thanks for the good ideas, and for your support. Al

RE: Today's Action Council meeting

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 29, 2026 10:07 AM
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Hi Mary, Thank you for your thoughtful message. We used to be able to make important statements, at least inform an important group of librarians in the ALA Council, and even sometimes put ALA on record that received notice in the library press through coverage at Council meetings and ALA press releases. ...

Point of information

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 29, 2026 12:40 AM
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Here is what happened this afternoon at the ALA Council meeting when they ran out of time. As the published ending time approached, the ALA President-Elect who was chairing the meeting, asked the body if there were any objections to extending the meeting by 15 minutes. There were no objections. As the ...

Today's Action Council meeting

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 28, 2026 05:21 PM
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I think we need to discuss what happened at the SRRT Action Council meeting today. For those who were not there at the end, we ran out of time before we got to the 3 resolutions on the agenda. As I said at the meeting, SRRT adopted a rule many years ago to put resolutions at the front of the agendas, ...

RE: MY DISSENT AGAINST "ALA FORWARD"

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 27, 2026 03:02 PM
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Thanks Rory. Pat Schuman, Betty Turock, and I have all tried to talk with Dan, but he has not responded. Perhaps he is just too busy. Al

RE: ALA dissolution policy

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 26, 2026 08:35 PM
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Part of the context is that ALA has a huge deficit, and is continuing to draw down the endowment to meet current expenses. Currently these drawdowns must be repaid back to the endowment with interest. However, there is a proposal for the Wednesday Council meeting that would make it possible not to repay ...

ALA dissolution policy

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 26, 2026 06:39 PM
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Note that the ALA Council will vote on a new dissolution policy at the Wednesday meeting. Al ALA CD 17 Policy Monitoring Committee Report PDF Document · 186 KB

RE: Fwd: SRRT

Posted By Al Kagan Dec 13, 2025 08:49 AM
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Nora has a book coming out soon on censorship and wants to do a book talk. I asked her to let me know when it comes out so I can get a copy. Al

Fwd: SRRT Attachments

Posted By Al Kagan Dec 06, 2025 08:57 PM
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