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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Please join the Social Responsibilities Round Table on 11/15/2023 for "Intellectual Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Praxis in Librarianship and Education"

  • 1.  Please join the Social Responsibilities Round Table on 11/15/2023 for "Intellectual Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Praxis in Librarianship and Education"

    Posted Oct 24, 2023 06:10 AM

    Please join ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table for "Intellectual Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Praxis in Librarianship and Education"

    https://www.ala.org/rt/srrt/events

    Register

    Date & Time: Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 12:00–1:30 pm Central Time. Online, via Zoom

    Event description: Intensified battles around book bans, censorship, public and school library funding, Critical Race Theory, African American Studies pedagogy, gender identity, and sexual orientation are at fever pitch across the country, raising critical questions about the nature of intellectual freedom, the purpose of literacy and education, the dissemination of information, and the interrelationships among them. The pervasiveness of these issues also illuminates how race and racism continues to structure key conversations and contexts about information access, pedagogy, and the historical record. 

    What is behind this most recent wave of the longstanding challenges to intellectual freedom, historical reckoning, and "dangerous ideas" in America? How does it connect or stand apart from previous repression and suppression of information, literacy, and history? And how can the related professions of librarianship and education inform one another's efforts to uphold information access, historical integrity, and democratic principles? This panel will dig into these key questions and help contextualize, inform, and ignite our collective understanding and advocacy in these areas. Please join us!

    Panelists:

    • Nicole Cooke, Augusta Baker Endowed Chair, School of Information Science, University of South Carolina

    • Carolyn Foote, Co-Founder, FReadom Fighters

    • Johannah Genett, Deputy Director, Hennepin County Library

    • Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, University of California, Los Angeles

    This event is free and open to the public. 

    Please email Rachel Rosekind for more information: rosekindness@gmail.com.

    Register



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    Rachel Rosekind
    Educator, Editor, Writer, Activist, Library Commissioner
    Write You Are / Contra Costa Library Commission
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