SRRT (Social Responsibilities Round Table)

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The Social Responsibilities Round Table works to make ALA more democratic and to establish progressive priorities not only for the Association, but also for the entire profession. Concern for human and economic rights was an important element in the founding of SRRT and remains an urgent concern today. SRRT believes that libraries and librarians must recognize and help solve social problems and inequities in order to carry out their mandate to work for the common good and bolster democracy.

Learn more about SRRT on the ALA website.

  • 1.  [srrtac-l] FYI - Brief Intro to SRRT

    Posted Dec 11, 2020 01:35 PM
    And also Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT).
    Al

    On Dec 11, 2020, at 11:59 AM, April Sheppard <asheppard@astate.edu> wrote:

    All –
     
    I've just been reminded that GODORT also has their origin as a SRRT Task Force.
     
    Thanks, Tom!
     
     
     
    April
     
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  • 2.  RE: [srrtac-l] FYI - Brief Intro to SRRT

    Posted Dec 11, 2020 01:46 PM

    That's great! I didn't know this one!

     

     

     

     

    April Sheppard

    SRRT Coordinator

    she/they/her/them

     

    Dean B. Ellis Library

    Arkansas State University

     




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  • 3.  RE: [srrtac-l] FYI - Brief Intro to SRRT

    Posted Dec 12, 2020 07:17 AM
    Also the IntellectualFreedom Roundtable

    And - many founders and early members of SRRT who became  ALA President

    Eric Moon *
    EJJosey * 
    Arthur Curley*
    Pat Schuman *
    Clara Jones
    Mitch Freedman
    Betty Turock
    leslie Burger
    Regina Minudri


    * founding member

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    Patricia Schuman
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  • 4.  RE: [srrtac-l] FYI - Brief Intro to SRRT

    Posted Dec 12, 2020 09:25 PM
    I thought someone might add this side bit of information but since no one has I will.
    There are several groups that basically started out of the Feminist Task Force or because of the Feminist Task Force/
     1. RASD Discussion Group of Women's Materials and Women Library Users - this group has been dissolved
     2. LLAMA Women Administrator's Discussion Group
     3. ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section
     4. COSWL (Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship (an ALA Council Committee)
    There may have been others but this is what I remember at the moment.

    --
    Diedre Conkling
    diedre08@gmail.com
     
    "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."―Maya Angelou



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  • 5.  RE: [srrtac-l] FYI - Brief Intro to SRRT

    Posted Dec 12, 2020 10:14 PM
    Sorry — i just realized I left Nancy Kranich off the list of early SRRT'ers who became ALA President.

    Pat


    Patricia Glass Schuman
    Sent from my iPad


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  • 6.  RE: [srrtac-l] FYI - Brief Intro to SRRT

    Posted Dec 12, 2020 11:39 PM
    I'm loving this discussion!


    April



    Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S10, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone


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  • 7.  RE: [srrtac-l] FYI - Brief Intro to SRRT

    Posted Dec 13, 2020 08:02 AM
    Some other  SRRT history tidbits

     EJ Josey( Black Caucus),  Elizabeth Martinez Smith (Reforma), Virginia Matthews and Lotsee Patterson (American Indian Library Association) were early SRRT activists and subsequently founders  of ALA affiliates and ethnic library organizations. All three started SRRT Task Forces ( Minority Concerns,  Chicanos, American Indians) shortly after SRRT's founding). 

    In 1970 SRRT-ers founded the National Freedom Fund for Librarians to support librarians under fire for fighting censorship. NFFL preceded the Freedom to Read Foundation and the Leroi Merritt Humanitarian Fund.  

     Two SRRT-ers have served as ALA Treasurers ( me and Herb Biblo). Herb was the first minority and  I was the first woman. 

    How do I remember these tidbits? Fifty years ago I was the first elected SRRT  coordinator. So many years, so many fabulous, hard- working, committed library workers! 

    SRRT's influence as an incubator  and support for activists and change-agents in ALA and the profession has been enormous.


    Pat Schuman



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  • 8.  RE: [srrtac-l] FYI - Brief Intro to SRRT

    Posted Jan 06, 2021 11:10 AM
    A clarification- both Herb and I were born into the Jewish faith.  A person of color has never served as ALA Treasurer.

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    Patricia Schuman
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