Brief Description: Subject File of SORT, including annual reports of the Staff Organizations Round Table (SORT) (1944-49, 1953-59); bibliography (1938); brochures; constitution (1951, 1960); list of committee members (1958-69); minutes (1953, 1981-82, 1988-1994) scrapbook (1944-59); and questionnaires and summary of a survey (1936, 1950, 1967-69, 1980-81, 1984-1994, 2000) concerning SORT activities and committees; staff organizations establishment and activities; and personnel morale, communication and manuals.

Record Series Number: 50/1/6

Created by: Staff Organizations Round Table (SORT)

Volume: 1.4 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 03/30/1979. 3/31/1992; 10/27/00; 1/17/2020

Arrangement: By type of material and chronological thereunder

Biographical Note for Staff Organizations Round Table (SORT) :

In May 1936, a group of members of staff organizations met and organized SORT (1).  In 1937, the ALA Conference passed a resolution to formally organize SORT as a Round Table (2).  The purpose of SORT is to encourage the formation of staff organizations, to act as a clearinghouse for information about staff organizations, to bring staff organizations of library employees into closer relationships so as to foster mutual cooperation, and to cooperate with all ALA units that are set up to study and act upon personnel matters (3).

Sub-Groups:

1-Steering Committee

2-Publications- SORT Bulletin

30-Constitution Revision

31-Membership

32-Program

33-Projects, Special

1.  ALA Bulletin, August 1936, pp. 809-810.

2.  Ibid., October 1937, pp. 892-894.

3.  ALA Handbook of Organization, 1981-82, p. 140.

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