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ALA Working Group for the Interpretation of the Core Value of Equity seeks your input

Posted By Rory Litwin Nov 25, 2025 04:05 AM
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Renee Tanner posted something to the main ALA group that we shouldn't sleep on: Dear ALA Members, The ALA Working Group for the Interpretation of the Core Value of Equity seeks your input on the draft interpretation. For background, the interpretations are written from the perspective of library ...

Open web access to SRRT's ALA Connect posts

Posted By Rory Litwin Oct 29, 2025 08:13 PM
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There is a discussion on the ALA Members Connect group about the public nature of Connect, and the privacy implications of group settings. It seems that a lot of groups, including this one, have the group settings in Connect set to "public," but may not be aware that the result of this is that our posts ...

RE: Feedback Requested on SRRT Program Assessment - Due by September 29 @ 12 pm CT

Posted By Rory Litwin Sep 25, 2025 10:15 AM
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Hm. I read the report, and I have to question the appropriateness of this kind of staff interference in a member group's activities. Yes, there may be legal limitations on a member group, as far as committing the association to positions or expenditures, but beyond that, it's a member group and has a ...

What kind of a future for SRRT should we push for and how?

Posted By Rory Litwin Sep 20, 2025 08:02 AM
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In light of the discussion of pending changes to Action Council's composition that we've been told about, and in light of the Trump administration's stated intention of coming down on "left wing" nonprofits, and in light of the ALA's radical planning process to deal with its structural financial deficit, ...

RE: ALA President Sam Helmick - "as a Republican myself..."

Posted By Rory Litwin Aug 25, 2025 05:23 PM
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I think one thing that SRRT could do would be to have another "Afternoon of Social Justice" webinar event, and use it to address these topics. I think it could be a useful format for this. I agree with Mark about the importance of this, but want to highlight that it's not about any single statement ...

Library Juice Press Annual Paper Contest

Posted By Rory Litwin Jul 19, 2025 08:34 AM
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The intention of this contest is to encourage and reward good work in the field of library and information studies, humanistically understood, through a monetary award and public recognition. The contest is open to librarians, library students, academics, and others. Acceptable paper topics cover ...

Library Juice Press Annual Paper Contest

Posted By Rory Litwin Jul 19, 2025 08:33 AM
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The intention of this contest is to encourage and reward good work in the field of library and information studies, humanistically understood, through a monetary award and public recognition. The contest is open to librarians, library students, academics, and others. Acceptable paper topics cover ...

RE: Recordings of virtual events

Posted By Rory Litwin Jul 10, 2025 10:20 AM
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Would there be any way of restricting viewing to SRRT or ALA members?

RE: Recordings of virtual events

Posted By Rory Litwin Jul 10, 2025 10:03 AM
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I agree. I'd really like for SRRT virtual meetings to be recorded and made available. Rory

Brief comment on what seems to be happening in SRRT

Posted By Rory Litwin Jun 29, 2025 12:50 PM
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I missed the virtual SRRT meeting yesterday, and I wish I had seen it, because from the outside it looks like some very important things are going on. One very brief comment: As uncomfortable as things are, I think the bright spot is that there is now a critical mass of newer members who are proving ...

New editors for the Litwin Books Series in Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies

Posted By Rory Litwin Jun 02, 2025 06:02 PM
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Emily Drabinski created the Litwin Books Series in Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies in 2008, and in the years since then it has been a cornerstone of our book publishing endeavor at Litwin Books and Library Juice Press. We want to celebrate Emily's service as editor and thank her as she passes ...

Libraries in Higher Education: How Can We Meet the Moment? Free panel discussion

Posted By Rory Litwin May 09, 2025 12:24 PM
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Free event – Panel Discussion – "Libraries in Higher Education: How Can We Meet the Moment?" Monday, May 12th at 1pm Eastern| Register here As the federal government takes aim squarely at libraries and higher education, an organized sector-wide response is crucial. How can academic library workers ...

RE: SRRT as the "radical caucus" of ALA -- re-envisioning SRRT

Posted By Rory Litwin Mar 05, 2025 08:59 AM
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I think it would be helpful for Oliva to outline the process her group is using to gather opinions on the future of SRRT for this planning project. I am afraid of stepping on toes by participating in a discussion of the IFRT proposal now, but I am not aware of what it is I should be participating in ...

RE: SRRT as the "radical caucus" of ALA -- re-envisioning SRRT

Posted By Rory Litwin Mar 05, 2025 08:49 AM
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I'll share my own take on the content of the statement and the debate it wants to be a part of, for the record. I think a centrist liberal SRRT would be redundant with ALA as a whole and wouldn't have a reason to exist. I don't know why someone would want to be involved in SRRT if they didn't want to ...

RE: SRRT as the "radical caucus" of ALA -- re-envisioning SRRT

Posted By Rory Litwin Mar 04, 2025 07:35 PM
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I sat in on the SRRT meeting yesterday, where Olivia expressed her strong reaction to this proposal, which had been shared with Action Council earlier. I was really curious to see what it said, and how it said it. I'm in my late 50s, more or less a white male, and I grew up with an orientation to politics ...

Listening Session recording?

Posted By Rory Litwin Feb 28, 2025 11:29 AM
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Hi all, I had to miss yesterday's listening session, but I'd be interested in watching a recording of it. Was it recorded? Thanks, Rory Litwin

RE: Censored and censored once again on Connect

Posted By Rory Litwin Jan 29, 2025 05:10 PM
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Katharine, The end of their email states, "If you disagree with this review, you can request that the ALA Code of Conduct Committee review this decision by emailing connect@ala.org." I plan to send them a note. I think Mark is in the right here, and that it's an important issue. I think if a good number ...

RE: Herb Biblo Outstanding Leadership Award deadline extended to February 15, 2025

Posted By Rory Litwin Jan 27, 2025 02:28 PM
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Someone should nominate Sandy Berman. I feel that as a sponsor of the award I shouldn't be nominating anyone, but that's my suggestion. He was a great influence on many progressive librarians. He's still alive. Rory Litwin -- Rory Litwin Pronouns: he/him | they/them P.O. Box 188784Sacramento, CA 95818Tel. ...

A challenging thought from A. R. Moxon

Posted By Rory Litwin Dec 18, 2024 04:45 AM
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Novelist A. R. Moxon on BlueSky [none of these words are my own, but I agree with him]: "People who say of Nazis 'deal with bad ideas is by defeating them in the marketplace of ideas' are smuggling in the notion that Nazi ideas have not already been defeated on the merits, and are still valid and worthy ...

2024 Annual Library Juice Paper Contest

Posted By Rory Litwin Oct 02, 2024 03:40 PM
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Library Juice Press is excited to announce the winner of the 2024 Annual Library Juice Paper Contest. Teresa Helena Moreno's paper, titled, "Interrupting the Criminalization of Information in the Academic Library Classroom," published in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, was determined ...