RMRT (Retired Members Round Table)

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The Retired Members Round Table (RMRT) shall exist to develop programs of particular interest to retired persons from all types of libraries and all forms of library services, including formal opportunities for continued involvement and learning; a variety of leadership training and opportunities for mentoring; lifelong professional involvement and networking; and active engagement in the American Library Association and the profession of librarianship.

Visit the Retired Members Round Table (RMRT) on the ALA website.

  • 1.  summary from RMRT World Cafe brainstorming program

    Posted Aug 03, 2011 12:59 PM
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    Here are the common themes that I identified.

    At conferences: social/shared interest (baseball) meet & greet events/spaces (perhaps a suite, a lounge, or our own hotel), tips before retiring, a special conference rate, connect with similar organizations, voice of experience role formalized, comfort for aging bodies, e.g. a people mover for Morial Convention Center.

    Between conferences: tips before retiring, mentoring opportunities, local advocacy, contact similar organizations, promote RMRT at state conferences, virtual gatherings & communication, e.g. aggregate ALA news , group travel.

    For libraries and library workers: Advocacy back home/local, mentoring & guidance including how to use ALA, institutional memory, aggregate ALA news.

    I am attaching the full notes up as a document.

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  • 2.  RE: summary from RMRT World Cafe brainstorming program

    Posted Aug 04, 2011 03:45 PM

    Carolyn,

    Thanks for this summary.  As someone near retirement, I see many of these potential activities as really interesting.  I’d like to hear more from this membership about the personal dynamics of retiring – and how we develop “replacements” and transferring institutional memory….commiseration, I guess.

    But then the baseball sounds really really good, too.

    Lynne B.



  • 3.  RE: summary from RMRT World Cafe brainstorming program

    Posted Aug 05, 2011 11:03 AM

    Thank you for the summary of the brainstorming program.  As chair of the AASL Retirees Task Force, I will share those comments when we begin work this fall.  Many of the ideas align with the report we submitted at annual.