Hello, RMRT,
The agenda for our meeting in Chicago is below. I hope to see many of you at the meeting and at our events at the conference. If you are a committee chair, you are welcome to attach a report to this thread or to RMRT Connect to keep our members informed. It's been an eventful, collaborative work by the RMRT Board! Items may be added to the agenda at the meeting but here is where we start off. Attached are the minutes of the 2025 meeting which will be accepted at the meeting. Before the meeting, if you see changes that need to made to the minutes, please email me at skjohns@gmail.com.
Remember, Retired Librarians and Library Workers make great advocates! Retired Librarians Make Great Advocates!
Thank you all, Sara
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
RETIRED MEMBERS ROUNDTABLE
ANNUAL IN-PERSON MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Saturday, June 28, 2026, Hyatt McCormick, Superior Room
https://www.ala.org/rmrt
CALL TO ORDER: Sara Kelly Johns, Chair
1. Brief Introductions by Members Present
a. What year did you retire?
b. What position and place did you retire from?
2. Approval of Previous Meeting Annual Membership Meeting Minutes, June 28, 2025 (attached)
3. Chair Report-Sara Kelly Johns
4. Treasurer Report – Kay Cassell
5. Awards-Kay Cassell
a. Norman Horrocks Travel Grant This year's award winner is Judi Moreillon
b. Ruth Gordan Gadfly This year's award winner is Karen Bental
6. Committee Reports
a. Advocacy – Dorcas Hand
b. Awards-Kay Cassell
i. Norman Horrocks Travel Award - This year's award winner is Judi Moreillon
ii. Ruth Gordon Gadfly Travel Allowance Award - This year's award winner is Karen Bental
c. Freedom to Read – Judi Moreillon
d. Intellectual Freedom Committee – Michele Lauer-Bader
e. Program Committee-Nann Hilyard
i. RMRT dinner, FatPour, Friday, 6/26, 7:15pm
ii. RMRT Tour - The Driehaus Museum, located in the historic 1883 Nickerson mansion on Chicago's near North Side, Saturday, 10am.
Its collections interpret and display the prevailing design, architecture, and decorating tastes of the Gilded Age and Art Nouveau eras.
iii. RMRT Book Club - Following the membership meeting in this room
iv. RMRT Chair's Program - Breaking Barriers: A Librarian's Story of Changing Times with Dr. Robert Wedgeworth (ALA Executive Director, 1972-1985), 10:30-11:30am, Sunday June 28, McCormick Place Convention Center, W 194 B
v. Joint RMRT/NMRT Reception - 5:30-7:30pm, Sunday, June 28, Marriott Marquis, Great Lakes F
vi. RMRT & United for Libraries, Words have Power, a Dignity Index discussion, Monday, June 29, 01:30-11:30am, McCormick Place Convention Center, W 194 B
vii. Monday afternoon, 2:00-3:30 pm, there will be an RMRT sponsored table at the United Libraries Gala Tea. Please be aware this is a ticketed event. McCormick Place, W 375 A Skyline
f. Committee on Profession Ethics (COPE) – Ray James
g. Membership-Lisa Kippur (on hiatus)
7. New Board Member Announcements
Ann Marie Pipkin – Chair
Jana Prock – Chair-Elect
8. Additional Announcements
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Sara Kelly Johns
ALA COLA Ecosystem Subcommittee Member
Chair, ALA Publishing Committee and RMRT
AASL President, 2007-08
Instructor, Syracuse University iSchool
skjohns@gmail.com------------------------------