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RE: SRRT as the "radical caucus" of ALA -- re-envisioning SRRT

Posted By Rory Litwin Mar 05, 2025 08:59 AM
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I think it would be helpful for Oliva to outline the process her group is using to gather opinions on the future of SRRT for this planning project. I am afraid of stepping on toes by participating in a discussion of the IFRT proposal now, but I am not aware of what it is I should be participating in ...

RE: SRRT as the "radical caucus" of ALA -- re-envisioning SRRT

Posted By Rory Litwin Mar 05, 2025 08:49 AM
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I'll share my own take on the content of the statement and the debate it wants to be a part of, for the record. I think a centrist liberal SRRT would be redundant with ALA as a whole and wouldn't have a reason to exist. I don't know why someone would want to be involved in SRRT if they didn't want to ...

RE: SRRT as the "radical caucus" of ALA -- re-envisioning SRRT

Posted By Rory Litwin Mar 04, 2025 07:35 PM
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I sat in on the SRRT meeting yesterday, where Olivia expressed her strong reaction to this proposal, which had been shared with Action Council earlier. I was really curious to see what it said, and how it said it. I'm in my late 50s, more or less a white male, and I grew up with an orientation to politics ...

Listening Session recording?

Posted By Rory Litwin Feb 28, 2025 11:29 AM
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Hi all, I had to miss yesterday's listening session, but I'd be interested in watching a recording of it. Was it recorded? Thanks, Rory Litwin

RE: Censored and censored once again on Connect

Posted By Rory Litwin Jan 29, 2025 05:10 PM
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Katharine, The end of their email states, "If you disagree with this review, you can request that the ALA Code of Conduct Committee review this decision by emailing connect@ala.org." I plan to send them a note. I think Mark is in the right here, and that it's an important issue. I think if a good number ...

RE: Herb Biblo Outstanding Leadership Award deadline extended to February 15, 2025

Posted By Rory Litwin Jan 27, 2025 02:28 PM
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Someone should nominate Sandy Berman. I feel that as a sponsor of the award I shouldn't be nominating anyone, but that's my suggestion. He was a great influence on many progressive librarians. He's still alive. Rory Litwin -- Rory Litwin Pronouns: he/him | they/them P.O. Box 188784Sacramento, CA 95818Tel. ...

A challenging thought from A. R. Moxon

Posted By Rory Litwin Dec 18, 2024 04:45 AM
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Novelist A. R. Moxon on BlueSky [none of these words are my own, but I agree with him]: "People who say of Nazis 'deal with bad ideas is by defeating them in the marketplace of ideas' are smuggling in the notion that Nazi ideas have not already been defeated on the merits, and are still valid and worthy ...

2024 Annual Library Juice Paper Contest

Posted By Rory Litwin Oct 02, 2024 03:40 PM
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Library Juice Press is excited to announce the winner of the 2024 Annual Library Juice Paper Contest. Teresa Helena Moreno's paper, titled, "Interrupting the Criminalization of Information in the Academic Library Classroom," published in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, was determined ...

Library Juice Press Annual Paper Contest - Deadline Extended

Posted By Rory Litwin Jul 30, 2024 01:52 PM
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Library Juice Press has extended the deadline for entries in its annual paper contest, from August 1st to September 1st 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 ...

RE: Pathfinders for Making Sense of Current World Events

Posted By Rory Litwin Jul 11, 2024 05:47 PM
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Hi Deborah, Couldn't the concerns you're expressing be used against anything SRRT normally does? What SRRT activities do you support? Rory Litwin ------------------------------ Rory Litwin President Library Juice Academy ------------------------------

Learning Showcase?

Posted By Rory Litwin Apr 28, 2024 10:54 AM
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Hi..... I am wondering if LearnRT will continue organizing the Learning Showcase or a similar event for San Diego this summer. We would be interested in participating again. ------------------------------ Rory Litwin President Library Juice Academy ------------------------------

RE: FYI - Final Agenda for 2/19/24 Action Council Meeting

Posted By Rory Litwin Feb 19, 2024 12:06 PM
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Hello, I was unable to attend the meeting this morning, but I'd really like to see the recording. Was it recorded? Thank you, Rory Litwin ------------------------------ Rory Litwin President Library Juice Academy ------------------------------

RE: Zoom Link and Tentative Agenda for 2/19/24 SRRT Action Council Meeting

Posted By Rory Litwin Feb 15, 2024 08:59 PM
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What time is the meeting? -- Rory Litwin Pronouns: he, him, his P.O. Box 188784Sacramento, CA 95818Tel. (916) 905-0291 (mobile)Tel. (916) 917-5951 (house phone)Fax (916) 415-5446 The Sacramento area is the tribal land of Nisenan people of the central valley, the Foothills and Southern Maidu people ...

What is the importance of SRRT resolutions?

Posted By Rory Litwin Nov 29, 2023 11:05 AM
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Hello everyone, I am a member of Jewish Voice for Peace and a longtime SRRT member. I have no problem with the substance of the ceasefire resolution that has been discussed here, but the intensely controversial nature of the topic has me wondering some things about SRRT resolutions in general. I don't ...

RE: Current World Events Discussion Series for Library Staff & Community Members

Posted By Rory Litwin Oct 05, 2023 02:53 PM
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Ok. That sounds like it could end up being the "SRRT position" if one is decided on. I personally find it naive, though, to think that "the actual system of power relations that exists today among the major nation-states" doesn't require being pro-NATO. I don't accept that NATO is imperialist, certainly ...

RE: Current World Events Discussion Series for Library Staff & Community Members

Posted By Rory Litwin Oct 05, 2023 09:09 AM
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As long as we are sharing readings, I'd like to share what I think is an important counterpoint to the argument for appeasement. This report from Chatham House: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2023/06/how-end-russias-war-ukraine The readings Mark shared draw a moral equivalence between the West's liberal ...

RE: Reflections on the 9/18 SRRT meeting and the perennial difficulty

Posted By Rory Litwin Sep 18, 2023 02:31 PM
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Hi April, I really should clarify. There was nothing about the meeting in particular that caused that response in me. Not anything anybody said or anybody who was there. It's just the fact that it was a SRRT meeting. The culture precedes what happens in the meetings. Rory -- Rory Litwin Pronouns: he, ...

Reflections on the 9/18 SRRT meeting and the perennial difficulty

Posted By Rory Litwin Sep 18, 2023 12:46 PM
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Hello SRRT folks, When I saw the agenda for today's meeting, I noticed that something difficult happened at the in-person meeting at Annual, and it sounds the kind of thing I am familiar with from my time on SRRT Action Council years ago. I count myself as a SRRT "veteran," and I wish the word were ...

RE: Re: Proposed resolution

Posted By Rory Litwin Jun 21, 2023 10:22 AM
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Achcar is claiming that we've been in a cold war since shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He does talk a lot about what is happening now, but he doesn't make any clear claims that we're entering a cold war situation now, only a claim that the situation we've been in since the Clinton ...

RE: Re: Proposed resolution

Posted By Rory Litwin Jun 19, 2023 05:35 PM
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Hi Mark, I won't be attending, so if anyone feels it would be useful to discuss this online in advance of the meeting, that seems like a good thing to do. I don't think I will have much to add beyond what I've just said, however. Rory -- Rory Litwin Pronouns: he, him, his Schedule a meeting: https ...