SRRT: Social Responsibilities Roundtable
Late in 1999, the NYLA Council approved the formation of a Social Responsibilities Round Table, making New York one of three states whose own library association has such a round table.
Vision
Libraries champion social equity by facilitating dynamic connections to community, learning and growth.
Mission
As trusted servants of the community, libraries play a unique role in providing social infrastructure. In the face of extreme financial disparities, erosion of communities, and acts of discrimination and violence, the SRRT is committed to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in library services.
Purpose
- The SRRT encourages individual libraries to align their policies, procedures, and values with equity, diversity, and inclusion through library services.
- The SRRT acts as a stimulus to NYLA and its various units in making libraries more responsive to issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- The SRRT provides a forum for the discussion of responsibilities which librarians and libraries have in relation to the urgent problems of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Visit the American Library Association's SRRT.