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.
Please see number 1 below. One of the early SRRT victories on democratizing ALA was the passage of the Open Meetings Policy. That has now be thrown overboard by the ALA Executive ...
The intention of this contest is to encourage and reward good work in the field of library and information studies, humanistically understood, through a monetary award and public ...
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Hi All, Sharing this message on behalf of Melanie Welch, Interim Associate Executive Director of Institutional Advancement, Programs, and Partnerships. This message was also ...
AI and Social Justice, August 4, 2025 Free and open to the public https://www.ala.org/srrt/events/dsj2025 The Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT)'s Afternoon ...
In his Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns: Thoughts on War , released by Seven Stories Press, 2025, Artem Chapeye reconsiders the choices we make when war is waged upon ...
I think in today’s climate it would be a mistake to record meetings in most cases. Whether they are kept for a short time or only made available to certain people there is a record ...
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