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RE: Henriette Avram- (1919 –  2006) - Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026

Posted By Michael Gorman Jan 13, 2025 07:13 AM
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Thank you. I knew Henriette Avram quite well and she was a lovely woman, clever, funny, quick as lightning to see a point, good company, and reputed to be an avid square dancer (with her husband)! The sad thing about her great achievement--MARC--is that she was not a librarian, still less a cataloguer. ...

RE: Norman Horrocks - Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026

Posted By Michael Gorman Dec 02, 2024 09:32 AM
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Dear KathleenThank you. Norman was a lovely man and is sorely missed. We were friends in that later years of his life and I both respected him and was very fond of him as a person. He is number one on the list of Best ALA Presidents We Never Had.All the best, Michael -- ----------------Michael GormanChicago, ...

In silence or indifference

Posted By Michael Gorman Nov 09, 2024 02:59 PM
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I would like to suggest, as the basis for an SRRT panel or program, library historian Wayne Wiegand's In silence or indifference, a book documenting the racist practices of public school libraries in the South in the Jim Crow era. I think one of the most important things about this excellent book is ...

RE: Pathfinders for Making Sense of Current World Events

Posted By Michael Gorman Jul 13, 2024 08:53 PM
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I trust it is understood that the MG referred to is not your humble servant. Best wishes, Michael

RE: Statement from Ann Sparanese, Winner of the 2024 Herb Biblo Outstanding Leadership Award for Social Justice & Equity

Posted By Michael Gorman Jul 01, 2024 06:19 AM
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Please pass this on if AS does not see the list. MG Dear AnnMany congratulations on winning the well-deserved Biblo award. Hope all is well with you and yours. Michael-----Michael Gorman525 W. Superior, Apt.225Chicago Illinois 60654-----312-515-8478

RE: Question - Timeline of Important Developments/Events/Pioneers on Librarianship in USA

Posted By Michael Gorman Apr 17, 2024 06:04 AM
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Here's one short version:www.slideshare.net/sharpe3/a-timeline-of-events-in-the-history-of-libraries -----Michael Gorman525 W. Superior, Apt.225Chicago Illinois 60654-----312-515-8478

RE: ALA Medal of Excellence - Question

Posted By Michael Gorman Feb 18, 2024 08:54 PM
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PS. The Anglo-American cataloguing rules (1978-AACR2) is misspelled on the Wikipedia page. MG-----Michael Gorman525 W. Superior, Apt.225Chicago Illinois 60654-----312-515-8478

RE: ALA Medal of Excellence - Question

Posted By Michael Gorman Feb 18, 2024 08:51 PM
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Dear KathleenWyllis (with a Y not an I) E. Wright was the chairman of the ALA Catalog Code Revision Committee, which was the dominant force behind the 1967 Anglo-American cataloging rules, edited first by Seymour Lubetzky and, when Seymour was defenestrated by LC as being too radical, by Sumner Spalding. ...

RE: FYI - ND Senator Calls for investigation of ALA

Posted By Michael Gorman Aug 04, 2023 05:42 AM
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Facts, shmacts. When you are an anti woke warrior, who needs facts, evidence and expertise? Not these rubes. -------------------------------Michael Gorman 525 W. Superior, #225 Chicago, Illinois 60654 ------------------------------- 312-475-0857

Puritan and banning books

Posted By Michael Gorman Jul 22, 2023 09:45 AM
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"Moms for Liberty" Gene Lyons, Chicago Sun-times: Something tells me I've seen this movie before. Back in my own elementary school days, we read about Dick and Jane. Even at that tender age, it was clear to me that they were Protestants and Republicans, although I had only the foggiest idea what ...

RE: DPLA Launches Banned Books Club

Posted By Michael Gorman Jul 22, 2023 09:41 AM
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"Moms for Liberty" Gene Lyons, Chicago Sun-times: Something tells me I've seen this movie before. Back in my own elementary school days, we read about Dick and Jane. Even at that tender age, it was clear to me that they were Protestants and Republicans, although I had only the foggiest idea what ...

RE: Researching NYPL's Labor History

Posted By Michael Gorman Jun 15, 2023 07:30 AM
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It was one moment when I realised how exciting catalogues and cataloguing can be! All the best, Michael -------------------------------Michael Gorman 525 W. Superior, #225 Chicago, Illinois 60654 ------------------------------- 312-475-0857

RE: Researching NYPL's Labor History

Posted By Michael Gorman Jun 14, 2023 08:24 PM
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When I was a young library assistant in a small London branch library, two little hooligans took two rods out of the card catalogues and were found "fencing" with them near the library entrance. Michael

The Plot Against America

Posted By Michael Gorman May 18, 2023 01:54 PM
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Washington post "Librarians could face years of imprisonment and tens of thousands in fines for providing sexually explicit, obscene or 'harmful' books to children under new state laws that permit criminal prosecution of school and library personnel," Hannah Natanson reports. ...

The Plot Against America

Posted By Michael Gorman May 18, 2023 01:52 PM
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Washington post "Librarians could face years of imprisonment and tens of thousands in fines for providing sexually explicit, obscene or 'harmful' books to children under new state laws that permit criminal prosecution of school and library personnel," Hannah Natanson reports. ...

RE: Not sure if you all saw this, but thought it would be of interest to our Round Table

Posted By Michael Gorman Apr 15, 2023 07:05 AM
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Amen.  I have ordered it from Bookshop.org--it is on back order--I hope because they  have sold a lot of copies.  Michael ------------------------------ Michael Gorman Chicago, Illinois michaelg@mail.fresnostate.edu ------------------------------

RE: New article on ALA's Black Caucus

Posted By Michael Gorman Apr 08, 2023 06:53 AM
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An important and enlightening contribution. Thank you. Michael Gorman -------------------------------Michael Gorman 525 W. Superior, #225 Chicago, Illinois 60654 ------------------------------- 312-475-0857

RE: How to respond to an administrative ban on banned books

Posted By Michael Gorman Oct 27, 2022 06:09 AM
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Ranganathan wrote that "Bad thought laid bare to the world is rendered sterile." I have always thought that was true and a powerful idea against any censorship. Is it the effect of "social media" that makes me wonder if Ranganathan was right? Or does the statement just lack a final "eventually"? Michael ...

RE: Disturbing development in Missouri

Posted By Michael Gorman Oct 19, 2022 06:41 AM
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This is beyond distressing (I assume this Ashcroft is the son of the Ashcroft who was Dubya's ''PATRIOT" Act enforcer?)--another brick in the totalitarian MAGA edifice in which women are second class citizens, LBTQ people are persecuted, children are the chattels of their parents, and a perverted "Christianity" ...

Freedom of access

Posted By Michael Gorman Sep 03, 2022 07:37 AM
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Crooked Media ​Summer Boismier, a high school teacher in Oklahoma, resigned on August 24 after another teacher complained that Boismier gave students QR codes with access to the Brooklyn Public Library, which would allow them to borrow books banned ...