ALA Sessions of Interest

Friday

Bridging the Gap, Building the Future [SRRT/CSk w/ Black Caucus]

10am

SRRT/GLBTF Steering Committee

8-10pm

Saturday

SRRT All Task Force/Action Council

8-11am

Hawaii: Putting the Pieces Back Together

2-4pm

Must the Poor Always Be Among Us?

2-4pm

Anarchist Librarians Beer Night

Join us on Saturday night, June 27th at Bardo brewpub in Arlington, Virginia. Quite a few folks will be in town for ALA, so come join the radical librarians as we sample a few brewskis. Send email to the address below for more details.

Sunday

SRRT Program at 1998 ALA Conference in Washington, DC -- June 1998

WHO? American Library Association Social Responsibilities Round Table, Alternatives in Print Task Force. Sponsored by: ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table, Alternatives in Print Task Force; Task Force on Hunger, Homelessness and Poverty; Progressive Librarians Guild; ALCTS Collection Management Discussion Group; ACRL Women's Studies Section; YALSA

WHEN? Sunday, June 28, 1998, 9:30-11 a.m.

WHAT? Street Libraries: Infoshops & Alternative Reading Rooms

WHERE? Washington Plaza (Hotel), Adams Room, 10 Thomas Circle NW (at Massachusetts & Vermont)

Anarchist and punk information workers? Partly a response to public libraries' failure to meet the real needs and desires of young people and activist communities, a network of alternative libraries and infoshops has grown during the 90s in North America. Learn more about these spaces being staked out for use as zine archives, meeting rooms, day care centers, concert venues, free skools, and bookstores, from the folks who run them.

Speakers: Chris Atton, author, Alternative Literature; Alexis Buss, Wooden Shoe Books, Philadelphia; Joe Courter, Civic Media Center, Gainesville, FLorida; Chuck Munson, Mid-Atlantic Infoshop; Brad Sigal, Love and Rage Newspaper, New York; Chantel Guidry, Crescent Wrench Infoshop, New Orleans.

Rythms of Life, Author Breakfast

8:30-11am

Reading in the Age of Global Media

Monday

What Have You Done for Me Lately? Lesbian & Gay Youth Speak Out

10:30am-12noon

Free Speech Buffet

Monday June 29th, 6-9pm, The Washington Home of Stewart Mott, 122 Maryland Ave., NE

The Annual Convention of the American Libraries Association will be held this year in Washington, DC during the last week of June. During the ALA Convention, the Alternative Press Center and the Alternatives in Print Task Force will host the annual Free Speech Buffet. The Free Speech Buffet is an opportunity for independent publishers in the region to network and to meet socially conscious librarians attending the ALA Convention. In New York City in 1996, more than 150 librarians attended the Free Speech Buffet, which was held at the Mechanics Library, and 25 publishers displayed their periodicals and books. In San Francisco in 1997, 40 publishers and about 200 librarians attended the event held at the San Francisco Public Library. This year the Free Speech Buffet will be held at the Washington Home of Stewart Mott located across from the Supreme Court near the Capitol: Monday June 29th 6-9pm The Washington Home of Stewart Mott 122 Maryland Ave., NE Washington, DC 20002. We would much appreciate your participation at the Free Speech Buffet. ALA Convention attendees will be admitted free. To help defer costs for the event, we ask that publishers make a contribution of $25, or more, if resources allow. Hope to see you there. For an Independent, Critical, Social Change Press! Chuck D'Adamo Co-editor Alternative Press Index PO Box 33109 Baltimore, MD 21218 altpress@igc.apc.org 410/243-2471

Sponsored by the Alternatives in Print Task Force, SRRT

Created: June 3, 1998

Last updated: June 16, 1998