Finding Aid for Subject File, 1968-2007 | The American Library Association Archives

Title: Subject File, 1968-2007

ID: 49/1/5

Primary Creator: Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT)

Other Creators: Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT). Action Council (1968)

Extent: 11.0 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetical by member's surname and by subject title thereunder

Date Acquired: 04/26/1974. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Ad Hoc Council Committee on ACONDA (Anaconda), ALA Annual Conference, Alternatives in INT, American Indians, Berman, Sanford, Censorship, Civil Rights, Dejohn, William, Freedom to Read, Gay Task force, Srrt, Intellectual Freedom, Intellectual Freedom, Office for, International Relations, Israel-Libraries, Prison Libraries, Racial Discrimination, Sellen, Betty-Carol, Sex Discrimination, Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), SRRT Task Force on Women, Status of Women, Sweat, Anne, Unionization, Wheeler, Helen, Women Librarians

Languages: English

Correspondence and subject files (1968-99) of Action Council, with members Richard Akeroyd, Sanford Berman, Denis Carbonneau, Ed Cavallini, William DeJohn, Liz Dickinson, Tyron Emerick, Jackie Eubanks, Leonard Grundt, Marjorie Joramo, Betty Kohler, Suzanne LeBarron, Michael Moran, Linda Pierce, Barbara Pruett, Rhea Rubin, Patricia Schuman, Betty-Carol Sellen, Lillian Shapiro, Anne Sweat, David Weill, Helen Wheeler, James Wright, John Hostage, Denise Botto, Sherre Dryden, Stephen J. Stillwell, Corinne Nyquist, David Williams, Jackie Eubanks, and Wendy Thomas, contains agenda, minutes, task force reports, articles, budget correspondence, Synergy (1972), Workforce (1973), financial reports, publicity, materials, Round Tables in the ALA, and related documents, includes SRRT organization, publications, women and job discrimination, racism, intellectual freedom, ALA organization, ALA annual and midwinter conferences, ALA Council elections, alternative press, and SRRT task forces and affiliates.

At the Kansas City ALA 1968 Annual Conference a petition was presented at the annual membership meeting asking for the formation of a Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) to provide a forum for discussion of major issues of the times and the responsibilities of librarians in relation to those issues (1). The Committee of Organization reported the matter to the ALA Council (2). The ALA established a Committee on the SRRT at its 1969 Washington D.C. Midwinter Meeting (3), which held an organizational meeting for the SRRT at the Atlantic City ALA 1969 Annual Conference (4). At the Annual Conference a Constitution was drawn up based upon the idea of aggressive volunteers. Task Forces addressed the issues of library education, intellectual freedom, black librarians, community participation in libraries, humanization of library personnel, ALA reorganization, and publishing (5). In 1983 the SRRT Task Forces were "Alternatives in Print," Coretta Scott King Award, Ethnic Materials Information Exchange, Feminist Task Force, Gay Liberation, International Human Rights, Library Union, Men's Issues, Peace Information Exchange, and Tools for Consciousness Raising (6).

Repository: The American Library Association Archives

Accruals: 8/22/1995, 6/4/1999, 10/4/2000

Finding Aid Revision History: 10/13/2022 and 11/4/2022 (fixed formatting)

Other Note: 13 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/4901005a.pdf

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