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RE: 2026 Afternoon. of Social Justice: some critical comments

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Jul 17, 2026 12:58 PM
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Dear Don, Thank you for your thoughtful comments and for taking the time to read the piece so carefully. I think I may not have been clear about what I was trying to do. My argument wasn't intended to rest on formal definitions of "radical" and "progressive." Rather, it was a historical argument ...

RE: 2026 Afternoon. of Social Justice: some critical comments

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Jul 17, 2026 12:56 PM
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Dear Julie, Thank you for your thoughtful response and for your invitation. I appreciate your suggestion, and I would certainly be interested in participating in a discussion about SRRT's history and its role within librarianship. However, I would hope such a panel would not be simply an exercise ...

RE: 2026 Afternoon. of Social Justice: some critical comments

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Jul 17, 2026 12:56 PM
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Dear April, Thank you for your thoughtful response, and thank you for explaining some of the circumstances behind this year's program. I appreciate the work that you and the Programming Committee have put into organizing it under what sound like very difficult conditions. I also think Rory Litwin ...

2026 Afternoon. of Social Justice: some critical comments

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Jul 15, 2026 01:47 PM
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Reading the announcement for SRRT's 2026 Afternoon of Social Justice, I found myself asking a simple question: When did SRRT stop being radical? I do not ask that nostalgically. I ask it historically. SRRT was not created to make liberal democracy work more efficiently. It was not founded to encourage ...

Against Neutrality: 150 Years of Contesting the Meaning of Librarianship

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Jul 02, 2026 03:49 PM
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Against Neutrality: 150 Years of Contesting the Meaning of Librarianship M Rosenzweig As ALA celebrates its 150th anniversary, I find myself thinking about the people, movements, and struggles that shaped the Association Icame to know through Council, SRRT Action Council, conferences, committee meetings, ...

RE: Say Good-Bye to the SRRT Action Council

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Jun 28, 2026 10:45 PM
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Al, Thank you for this careful and detailed account, and for continuing to provide not just reporting but historical and structural interpretation of what is unfolding inside ALA governance. That kind of clarity has always been essential to SRRT's ability to understand itself as something more than ...

RE: Code of Conduct Violation Discussion

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Jun 28, 2026 07:49 PM
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I remain deeply troubled that neither ALA Council nor the SRRT Action Council has seriously engaged the substance of what occurred during the Virtual Membership Meeting preceding the Annual Conference. At the opening of Council in Chicago, a courageous library school student rose to object to rhetoric ...

RE: The Librarians' and Library Workers' Bill of Rights

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Jun 22, 2026 10:15 PM
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Thanks Al ! I agree entirely. Mark R. ------------------------------ Mark Rosenzweig ------------------------------

RE: Radical Publishers reception at Annual

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Jun 11, 2026 02:48 PM
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Sounds great, Howard. I look forward to being there and seeing you and other supporters of the radical press. Mark R. ------------------------------ Mark Rosenzweig ------------------------------

RE: When the ALA Members Aren't Allowed to Speak | Trevor A. Dawes

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Jun 10, 2026 11:47 PM
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What concerns me about this discussion is that it is being framed largely as a question of procedural interpretation when the underlying issue is political and historical. Those of us who came into ALA through the Social Responsibilities movement remember a very different understanding of the ...

LIBRARY WITHOUT BOOKS: Trump's "Presidential Library"

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Apr 05, 2026 07:08 PM
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"THE LIBRARY WITHOUT BOOKS" The public discussion and media now circulating about the proposed presidential library of Donald Trump raises a question that reaches beyond one political figure and enters the heart of what librarianship understands a library to be. The issue concerns ...

Democracy in Action: A Collaborative Plan to Protect Member Governance in ALA

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Apr 01, 2026 12:19 PM
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Support for JOINT ACTION in line with this proposal was just passed by Action Council. here's the resolution and an outline of the kind of action it suggests> RESOLVED that SRRTAC affirm support for a Round Table vote on any Executive Board–requested bylaws changes and approve SRRT participation in ...

RE: Fwd: Co-Sponsor Opportunity - Social Responsibility Round Table and Library Juice Press

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Mar 14, 2026 08:30 PM
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Sounds great! Let's bring it to SRRTAC for approval ! ------------------------------ Mark Rosenzweig ------------------------------

RESPONSE FROM CSKBART & EMIERT TO RESTRUCTURINGS/RESTRICTION MAATTERS RAISED IN SRRT

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Feb 25, 2026 01:09 PM
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Dear AC and SRRT memebers, I am fowarding this correspondance from the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table, more specifically , from Dr. Teffeny Edmondson, M.L.S., Ph.D (Chair, CSKBART Program Committee, (2025-2027)Vice Chair/Chair Elect, CSKBART, (2025-2027) Chair, CSKBART, (2027-2029) ...

IRAN: A MATTER OF URGENCY

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Feb 21, 2026 06:21 PM
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This is not a "library issue," per se,but a reason we should amend (for timeliness) and push forward, our SRRTAC resolution re Iran ,taking it to Council at Conference.We will present an amended version which will bring it up to date, but I ask that we find TWO ALA Councilors to sign off on it and present ...

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

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Feb 19, 2026 05:30 PM
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SO sad to hear this! I missed Charles' presence qand input recently and wondcered if he was OK. Charles was a very decent and principled ALAer and SRRTer, an important link in the struggle for social responsibilities in the profession. His work was valued. He will be missed. Mark Rosenzweig ...

RESOLUTIONS VERSUS ACTIVISM ?

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Feb 10, 2026 12:25 PM
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A Resolution Is a Voice M Rosenzweig When we talk about "resolutions" in ALA, especially those brought forward by SRRT, we are talking about voice. We are talking about speech that enters the official record of our profession. The format may follow parliamentary ...

SOLIDARITY RE RESOLUTIONS

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Feb 08, 2026 08:37 PM
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I want to express my deep gratitude to all of you for the passage of the two resolutions I had the privilege to propose-opposing U.S. military intervention in Venezuela and Iran, and condemning ICE raids, state violence, and the criminalization of journalism and protest. Resolutions do not pass ...

The Politicization of Federal Cultural Funding and IMLS Grant Guidelines

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Feb 08, 2026 03:18 PM
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Colleagues, A significant development at the federal level deserves SRRT's close attention. ProPublica reports that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the sole federal agency dedicated to supporting libraries and a primary funder of museums and archives, has issued 2026 grant ...

RE: Responding to ICE at the Library: Real World Approaches-free ALA member webinar from the Public Library Association

Posted By Mark Rosenzweig Feb 05, 2026 05:00 PM
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That's great! Looks very useful and, unfortunately, timely !Mark R.