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.

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  • 1.  A couple of old SRRT resolution

    Posted Mar 24, 2022 08:50 AM
    Greetings,

    I watched the recording of the last SRRT meeting just now and caught Al's report on what's happening with Jenny Rogers' work at the ALA Archives. He said that we are in need of digging up SRRT resolutions from the period of 2001 to 2007 that weren't saved in the archive. That pains me a bit because that's the period that I was involved with Action Council. I remember putting some SRRT Resolutions into the Library Juice newsletter during that time, and I found a couple of them:

    http://libr.org/juice/issues/vol5/LJ_5.4.html#5

    http://libr.org/juice/issues/vol5/LJ_5.5.html#13

    I hope that helps, and I'm sorry I wasn't able to find more....

    Rory Litwin

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    Rory Litwin
    President
    Library Juice Academy
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  • 2.  RE: A couple of old SRRT resolution

    Posted Mar 24, 2022 11:24 AM
    This helps! I will try and get these uploaded within the next week.



    April



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  • 3.  RE: A couple of old SRRT resolution

    Posted Mar 24, 2022 08:42 PM
    Thanks Rory,

    All of the resolutions in your first newsletter are already in the SRRT resolution archive. See https://www.ala.org/rt/srrt/resolutionsarchive

    However, your second newsletter has the SRRT Resolution on Libraries in a time of war and emergency, and that one is not there yet!

    And here is a follow-up on what is happening with the 2000s period searching. The ALA Archives does have the records, but they have not been processed. However, our GA has gone through the unprocessed materials and pulled out the relevant resolutions. They should be added to the archive in the near future.

    Al



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  • 4.  RE: A couple of old SRRT resolution

    Posted Mar 25, 2022 02:38 PM
    I've added the resolution on War & Emergency to the Archive. Do either of you know what happened to it so I can fill in those details?


    Thanks!


    April



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  • 5.  RE: A couple of old SRRT resolution

    Posted Mar 26, 2022 01:21 PM
    Thank you for this, it is very interesting.  I am not a very involved member of this roundtable beyond paying dues and pondering big pictures.  I appreciate so much the historical context the resolutions provide for one aspect of SRRT's work.

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    Wanda Huffaker
    Librarian
    Salt Lake County Library
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  • 6.  RE: A couple of old SRRT resolution

    Posted Mar 28, 2022 08:26 AM
    Thanks for being a SRRT members, Wanda. Having a substantial and engaged membership is a huge contribution to our success!

    Sherre

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    Sherre Harrington
    SRRT Coordinator
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  • 7.  RE: A couple of old SRRT resolution

    Posted Mar 28, 2022 11:33 PM

    I just upload some new resolutions to the Resolution Archive!

     

    SRRT Resolutions | Round Tables (ala.org) https://www.ala.org/rt/srrt/resolutionsarchive

     

     

     

     

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