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.

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Project 2025 Follow Up Discussion (Feb. 4)

  • 1.  Project 2025 Follow Up Discussion (Feb. 4)

    Posted Feb 03, 2025 12:57 PM
    IFRT Reads invites you to a follow up discussion on Project 2025

    Last December, we read several articles about the impact of Project 2025 on libraries, and began discussing ways in which librarians can respond.   We invite you to a follow up discussion on Tuesday, February 4th at 1 p.m. Eastern / Noon Central / 11 a.m. Mountain / 10 a.m. Pacific to address these questions:   
    • Project 2025 takes funds away from public education and uses them for private and religious education.  How should librarians respond when the U.S. Constitution is based on the separation of religion and state?
    • What kind of parental rights should we support in libraries? What kind of students' rights?  How do we make uncensored accounts of U.S. history available to students of all ages? 
    • Project 2025 bans the use of terms such as gender identity, sexual orientation and reproductive rights.  It defines discussion of transgender issues as pornography. We've already seen an executive order on this topic. How can librarians respond? 
    • What are our responsibilities as librarians/educators/promoters of democracy and pluralism in a highly polarized society in which the new administration is promoting mass deportation of undocumented immigrants and threatens to prosecute and imprison critics? How can we protect the rights of libraries and users? 

    You'll be asked to select one question to discuss in a small group, then we'll reconvene to share our collective insights (and for folks who don't like breakout rooms, this is your warning that they will be used). Please register for the event using this link.  Hope you can join us!




    Martin Garnar

    Member, IFRT Programming and Events Committee

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    Martin Garnar (he/him/his)
    Director, Amherst College Library
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