SRRT (Social Responsibilities Round Table)

Hello everyone,

Here is my report from the FTRF 2022 Winter Board Meeting that I attended on Tuesday (18^th).

As promised, the Symposium was discussed.  One thing liaisons were asked to pass along to their groups is a formative question as they are in planning stages:  "What would you like to see come out of the Symposium?"  I would suggest that, given there may be interest in suggesting speakers, that SRRT could also weigh in on this question. 

The question embodies the openness to ideas that I got from the meeting.  I mentioned that there may be interest from SRRT in suggesting speakers for the event, and Sophia Sotilleo and Sukrit Goswami expressed openness to suggestions from SRRT on speakers, and in helping to plan the event.  They are the contacts for that. 

Again, please see the first link I provided in my first message above for the current list of Symposium sub-committee members.  There is a sub-committee on Speakers/Panelists.  I am sorry to say that I cannot be involved, as I have too much going on and am already on committees within FTRF in addition to being liaison, but I do hope SRRT members/leaders will follow up and try to get involved as I think this is  a great opportunity!

Here is a link to the page with the (many) documents from the meeting: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WvuX9xjBkTO2lcRR9La1LG2_Ah9iI-Nt

Of particular interest to us in SRRT are the following:

"BoardMemoJanuary2022.pdf" = General Counsel Theresa Chmara's memo detailing litigation in which FTRF has joined amicus briefs, including two significant new ones.

"Symposium pdf for 2022 winter mtg.pdf" = This is the document I copied in and posted a bad link to last week (perhaps it had been updated for the meeting).

"Full report to council LLX.pdf" = FTRF Pres. Barbara Stripling's 2021-2022 Report to Council. 

[Includes:  summaries of cases; very concise description of the planned Symposium ("…two half-day virtual events in July 2022 that would explore the intersection of intellectual freedom and social justice and how we might empower individuals to act and engage in advocacy for intellectual freedom and social justice."); and details of the five winners of the Krug Fund Banned Books Week Grant (I was on the committee that selected them).]

From the oral report, "LLX22_FTRF_Oral_ReportCouncil_CD22.pdf", there is a note about how the FTRF webinar from December, "Managing and Addressing Book Challenges in Your Community: Law, Policy, Advocacy", is now available free online to everyone.  Here is the page, where it says to register first, and that it's just free to FTRF and IFRT members (but the oral report says it's free to everyone, and I can't test it since I'm in IFRT) (also note the other great sessions below that one):

https://www.ftrf.org/page/Webinars

steven

Hello everyone,

Here is my report from the FTRF 2022 Winter Board Meeting that I attended on Tuesday (18^th).

As promised, the Symposium was discussed.  One thing liaisons were asked to pass along to their groups is a formative question as they are in planning stages:  "What would you like to see come out of the Symposium?"  I would suggest that, given there may be interest in suggesting speakers, that SRRT could also weigh in on this question. 

The question embodies the openness to ideas that I got from the meeting.  I mentioned that there may be interest from SRRT in suggesting speakers for the event, and Sophia Sotilleo and Sukrit Goswami expressed openness to suggestions from SRRT on speakers, and in helping to plan the event.  They are the contacts for that. 

Again, please see the first link I provided in my first message above for the current list of Symposium sub-committee members.  There is a sub-committee on Speakers/Panelists.  I am sorry to say that I cannot be involved, as I have too much going on and am already on committees within FTRF in addition to being liaison, but I do hope SRRT members/leaders will follow up and try to get involved as I think this is  a great opportunity!

Here is a link to the page with the (many) documents from the meeting: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WvuX9xjBkTO2lcRR9La1LG2_Ah9iI-Nt

Of particular interest to us in SRRT are the following:

"BoardMemoJanuary2022.pdf" = General Counsel Theresa Chmara's memo detailing litigation in which FTRF has joined amicus briefs, including two significant new ones.

"Symposium pdf for 2022 winter mtg.pdf" = This is the document I copied in and posted a bad link to last week (perhaps it had been updated for the meeting).

"Full report to council LLX.pdf" = FTRF Pres. Barbara Stripling's 2021-2022 Report to Council. 

[Includes:  summaries of cases; very concise description of the planned Symposium ("…two half-day virtual events in July 2022 that would explore the intersection of intellectual freedom and social justice and how we might empower individuals to act and engage in advocacy for intellectual freedom and social justice."); and details of the five winners of the Krug Fund Banned Books Week Grant (I was on the committee that selected them).]

From the oral report, "LLX22_FTRF_Oral_ReportCouncil_CD22.pdf", there is a note about how the FTRF webinar from December, "Managing and Addressing Book Challenges in Your Community: Law, Policy, Advocacy", is now available free online to everyone.  Here is the page, where it says to register first, and that it's just free to FTRF and IFRT members (but the oral report says it's free to everyone, and I can't test it since I'm in IFRT) (also note the other great sessions below that one):

https://www.ftrf.org/page/Webinars

steven

Hello everyone,

Here is my report from the FTRF 2022 Winter Board Meeting that I attended on Tuesday (18^th).

As promised, the Symposium was discussed.  One thing liaisons were asked to pass along to their groups is a formative question as they are in planning stages:  "What would you like to see come out of the Symposium?"  I would suggest that, given there may be interest in suggesting speakers, that SRRT could also weigh in on this question. 

The question embodies the openness to ideas that I got from the meeting.  I mentioned that there may be interest from SRRT in suggesting speakers for the event, and Sophia Sotilleo and Sukrit Goswami expressed openness to suggestions from SRRT on speakers, and in helping to plan the event.  They are the contacts for that. 

Again, please see the first link I provided in my first message above for the current list of Symposium sub-committee members.  There is a sub-committee on Speakers/Panelists.  I am sorry to say that I cannot be involved, as I have too much going on and am already on committees within FTRF in addition to being liaison, but I do hope SRRT members/leaders will follow up and try to get involved as I think this is  a great opportunity!

Here is a link to the page with the (many) documents from the meeting: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WvuX9xjBkTO2lcRR9La1LG2_Ah9iI-Nt

Of particular interest to us in SRRT are the following:

"BoardMemoJanuary2022.pdf" = General Counsel Theresa Chmara's memo detailing litigation in which FTRF has joined amicus briefs, including two significant new ones.

"Symposium pdf for 2022 winter mtg.pdf" = This is the document I copied in and posted a bad link to last week (perhaps it had been updated for the meeting).

"Full report to council LLX.pdf" = FTRF Pres. Barbara Stripling's 2021-2022 Report to Council. 

[Includes:  summaries of cases; very concise description of the planned Symposium ("…two half-day virtual events in July 2022 that would explore the intersection of intellectual freedom and social justice and how we might empower individuals to act and engage in advocacy for intellectual freedom and social justice."); and details of the five winners of the Krug Fund Banned Books Week Grant (I was on the committee that selected them).]

From the oral report, "LLX22_FTRF_Oral_ReportCouncil_CD22.pdf", there is a note about how the FTRF webinar from December, "Managing and Addressing Book Challenges in Your Community: Law, Policy, Advocacy", is now available free online to everyone.  Here is the page, where it says to register first, and that it's just free to FTRF and IFRT members (but the oral report says it's free to everyone, and I can't test it since I'm in IFRT) (also note the other great sessions below that one):

https://www.ftrf.org/page/Webinars

steven

Tom and Al, and everyone,

[I apologize to everyone for how long it's taken me to respond...]

I think you both would be excellent speakers for the event, and will be very pleased to forward your names to the sub-committee. 

I had reached out to Sophia of the sub-committee last week to ask about what level of involvement SRRT might have in the process (e.g.:  Can non-FTRF SRRT folks serve on the sub-committees?); and on Monday, she responded very positively:

". . . We are open to partnering with SRRT in whatever capacity they would like to assist. 

Some ways to share information would be to:

Join the subcommittee for locating speakers if you would like to.

Share/Forward candidates' bio and information to someone on the committee.

Connect with me, Joyce, and or Sukrit to share information."

 
I will forward Tom and Al as speakers by the end of this week. 

For those who would like to get involved as Sophia suggested:  Sub-committee leaders Sukrit Goswami and Sophia Sotilleo can be reached via Connect, and Joyce McIntosh, ALA Staff Liaison to FTRF, can be reached at jmcintosh@ala.org.

[Tom, also thanks for suggesting me as a speaker!  You honor me with that, but I think I may have a bit too much other stuff going on right now, and wouldn't want to over-commit (and/or under-deliver).]

steven

Hello everyone,

Here is my report from the FTRF 2022 Winter Board Meeting that I attended on Tuesday (18^th).

As promised, the Symposium was discussed.  One thing liaisons were asked to pass along to their groups is a formative question as they are in planning stages:  "What would you like to see come out of the Symposium?"  I would suggest that, given there may be interest in suggesting speakers, that SRRT could also weigh in on this question. 

The question embodies the openness to ideas that I got from the meeting.  I mentioned that there may be interest from SRRT in suggesting speakers for the event, and Sophia Sotilleo and Sukrit Goswami expressed openness to suggestions from SRRT on speakers, and in helping to plan the event.  They are the contacts for that. 

Again, please see the first link I provided in my first message above for the current list of Symposium sub-committee members.  There is a sub-committee on Speakers/Panelists.  I am sorry to say that I cannot be involved, as I have too much going on and am already on committees within FTRF in addition to being liaison, but I do hope SRRT members/leaders will follow up and try to get involved as I think this is  a great opportunity!

Here is a link to the page with the (many) documents from the meeting: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WvuX9xjBkTO2lcRR9La1LG2_Ah9iI-Nt

Of particular interest to us in SRRT are the following:

"BoardMemoJanuary2022.pdf" = General Counsel Theresa Chmara's memo detailing litigation in which FTRF has joined amicus briefs, including two significant new ones.

"Symposium pdf for 2022 winter mtg.pdf" = This is the document I copied in and posted a bad link to last week (perhaps it had been updated for the meeting).

"Full report to council LLX.pdf" = FTRF Pres. Barbara Stripling's 2021-2022 Report to Council. 

[Includes:  summaries of cases; very concise description of the planned Symposium ("…two half-day virtual events in July 2022 that would explore the intersection of intellectual freedom and social justice and how we might empower individuals to act and engage in advocacy for intellectual freedom and social justice."); and details of the five winners of the Krug Fund Banned Books Week Grant (I was on the committee that selected them).]

From the oral report, "LLX22_FTRF_Oral_ReportCouncil_CD22.pdf", there is a note about how the FTRF webinar from December, "Managing and Addressing Book Challenges in Your Community: Law, Policy, Advocacy", is now available free online to everyone.  Here is the page, where it says to register first, and that it's just free to FTRF and IFRT members (but the oral report says it's free to everyone, and I can't test it since I'm in IFRT) (also note the other great sessions below that one):

https://www.ftrf.org/page/Webinars

steven