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RE: June 2024 SRRT Newsletter

Posted By Al Kagan Jun 24, 2024 06:04 PM
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I want to congratulate the editors of the SRRT Newsletter for reprinting an article by E.J. Josey. It is inspiring, just what I need today to counter the sad state of our country and world.

Fwd: resolution

Posted By Al Kagan May 21, 2024 10:28 AM
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Passing this on from Karyn Pomerantz. Al > Begin forwarded message: > > Columbia University Librarians: > > As library workers, we oppose the escalated and violent suppression of > speech, as well as increasing crackdowns on the free exchange of > ideas—two pillars of our academic community that Columbia ...

RE: Agenda and Zoom Link for Monday 5/20 SRRT Action Council Meeting

Posted By Al Kagan May 20, 2024 09:37 AM
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Attached is the revised resolution with Sherre's changes. Al

Agenda and Zoom Link for Monday 5/20 SRRT Action Council Meeting Attachments

Posted By Al Kagan May 20, 2024 09:36 AM
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Fwd: October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division”

Posted By Al Kagan May 12, 2024 08:37 PM
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Hello all, Please see the first two articles here. The first concerns H.R.6408 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the tax-exempt status of terrorist supporting organizations. And second concerns the bill equating anti-Zionism to anti-semitism, the Antisemitism Awareness Act. ...

RE: FYI - SRRT Webpages

Posted By Al Kagan May 04, 2024 09:26 AM
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This is appalling. And ALA is supposed to support information for the people.

ALA Core Values

Posted By Al Kagan May 01, 2024 08:16 AM
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Ten past-presidents of ALA have sent a message asking for a re-evaluation of the recent diminishment of the ALA core values. I hope that SRRT members will weigh in. I am particularly concerned with the deletion of democracy and social responsibility as core values. I am pasting the past-president's message ...

Fwd: [Progressivelibrariansguild] Statement from library workers at Columbia University regarding campus events

Posted By Al Kagan Apr 25, 2024 08:57 AM
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FYI Al Begin forwarded message: From: Eamon Tewell via Progressivelibrariansguild Subject: [Progressivelibrariansguild] Statement from library workers at Columbia University regarding campus events Date: April 25, 2024 at 8:34:42 AM CDT To: progressivelibrariansguild@lists.sonic.net Reply-To: ...

Fwd: ALA Members Digest for Thursday April 18, 2024

Posted By Al Kagan Apr 18, 2024 10:33 PM
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See no. 1 below. I think that it is shocking that 85% of public libraries put non-librarians on reference desks. It says a lot about where we have gotten to as a profession. Al Kagan Begin forwarded message: From: ALA Connect Subject: ALA Members Digest for Thursday April 18, 2024 Date: April ...

RE: Call for Agenda Items for 4/15/24 SRRT Meeting

Posted By Al Kagan Apr 08, 2024 06:04 PM
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ALA Executive Director's search and requirement for library degree Boycott of states that criminalize ALA Brief report on Combatants for Peace Zoom program and recording

RE: Demolishing Gaza's cultural heritage

Posted By Al Kagan Mar 26, 2024 08:16 PM
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The message was supposed to say that the link doesn't work, but you can find it by searching the title. Al

RE: Demolishing Gaza's cultural heritage

Posted By Al Kagan Mar 26, 2024 08:07 PM
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Hi Mark,

Fwd: Frieda's article on war in the Middle East and needed solidarity

Posted By Al Kagan Feb 08, 2024 10:34 PM
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FYI, Frieda Afray's latest article. She is organizing the SRRT webinar series and is running for SRRT Councilor. Al US Left Must Link With Progressive Forces in Middle East to Stop Regional War US Left Must Link With Progressive Forces in Middle East to Stop Regiona... Frieda Afary Progressives ...

RE: New Report: Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, October 2023–January 2024

Posted By Al Kagan Feb 05, 2024 02:47 PM
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Thanks Mark.

RE: FYI - Draft ALA Core Values

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 21, 2024 09:08 PM
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Thanks you Tara for making a good try at postponing the vote. I think we should put this on the agenda for the next Action Council meeting. I think SRRT should make some kind of response. This seems to me to be a reaction to the heavy silencing going on in this country, that is, hiding some key values ...

Intercepted podcast

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 18, 2024 08:09 PM
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I want to bring this podcast to your attention. Katherine Gallagher, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the ICJ case as well as a lawsuit CCR has filed against President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for the support ...

RE: FYI - Draft ALA Core Values

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 05, 2024 04:10 PM
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I want to calmly explain the reasoning behind my previous message. I did not accuse anyone of lying, and I did not claim that I know exactly what is happening. Rather I am guessing about (suspecting) what is going on. Every activity exists within a political environment which molds how things develop. ...

RE: FYI - Draft ALA Core Values

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 05, 2024 10:45 AM
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Thank you to Sara for her response. However, I suspect that these standard talking points are hiding the real reasons for the new core values proposal. I want to point out the precedent for rejecting a core values task force report. The current core values were adopted from a report that was called ...

RE: FYI - Draft ALA Core Values

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 05, 2024 08:14 AM
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I think this trend is widespread. I know the Urbana Free Library (IL) has done massive deprofessionalization over the past couple of years. They recently hired a high school grad to head acquisitions and they are staffing the reference desk with shelvers. Al

RE: FYI - Draft ALA Core Values

Posted By Al Kagan Jan 04, 2024 06:50 PM
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Here is the beginning of my report on ALA Council from 2004. Al Report on ALA Council to SRRT by Al Kagan June 2004 Due to a lot of hard work, SRRT issues did remarkably well in Orlando. Despite the heat and being in one of the most difficult to navigate and plastic environments yet, social responsibility ...