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.

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  • 1.  May Fifth Sunday Book Club Discussion

    Posted Jun 06, 2022 04:12 PM
    This file contains books that the American Library Association Retired Members Round Table members read/recommended that were published the year of their high school graduation.  Do you have any suggested books published when you graduated that are not on the list?

    RMRT FIFTH SUNDAY BOOK DISCUSSION

    Books Published the Year of Your Graduation

    1959-1970


     1959-1960

    Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, The by Eleanor Roosevelt

    Exodus by Leon Uris

    Hawaii by James Michener

    1962

    Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

    Cover Her Face by P. D. James

    Golden Notebook, The by Doris Lessing

    Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

    Wrinkle in Time, A   by Madeleine L'Engle

    1963

     Bell Jar, The by Sylvia Plath

    Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell

    Collector, The by John Fowles

    Planet of the Apes (La Planète des singes) by Pierre Boulle

    Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

    1964-1965

    Herzog by Saul Bellow

    Hotel by Arthur Hailey

    Source, The  by James A. Michener

    Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman 

    1966

    Curious George Goes to the Hospital by Margret Rey and H. A. Rey

    In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

    Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

    1969

    Andromeda Strain, The by Michael Crichton

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

    Left Hand of Darkness, The by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Poseidon Adventure, The by Paul Gallico

    Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut

    Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene

    Tremor of Forgery, The by Patricia Highsmith

    1970

    84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

    Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

    Love Story by Erich Segal

    Mister Carnegie's lib'ary by Caroline E Werkley

    Passenger to Frankfurt: An Extravaganza by Agatha Christie

    Very Hungry Caterpillar, The by Eric Carle



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    Ann Marie Pipkin
    RMRT Secretary
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  • 2.  RE: May Fifth Sunday Book Club Discussion

    Posted Jun 07, 2022 10:17 AM
      1958
    La Nuit, by Elie Weisel
    Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
    Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
    Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

    David K. Titus





  • 3.  RE: May Fifth Sunday Book Club Discussion

    Posted Jun 07, 2022 05:49 PM
    Some of my favorites!

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