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Dear Kathy and all, As a member of the former Burning Issues Group (now the Sexuality In Libraries Group), I would like to know if this group is also including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people in its definition of "diversity". The SILG group is NOT an official group of the LA, and I would only be willing to sign this if I knew we were including this important socially excluded community. Regards Sarah Currier Kathy Ennis wrote: > A lot of hard work by members of the Library Association is going in to > establishing a new LA Group. The Diversity Council aims to unite library and > information workers and to tackle social exclusion - particularly in the > areas of race, culture and creed. In order to make an application to become > a Group the Diversity Council has to obtain the signatures of 10% of current > Library Association members (approx 250). If you would like to support this > important initiative please complete the attached form (you will need to > print it off as we have to have a signature) and send it to: > > Victoria Anibueze > Administrative Officer > The Library Association > 7 Ridgmount Street > London WC1E 7AE > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Support the formation of the Diversity Council as a Group of The Library > Association. In recognition of the fact that the issues of diversity are as > relevant and important to the library community as they are to society at > large, I call upon the Library Association to recommend to Council that the > LA recognise the Diversity Council as an LA Group (DCG). This new Group > should have the same status (capitation, Council members, etc.), as other LA > groups. > > Please fill in your name and address below: > > Name: ___________________________________________________ > > Address: Home or Work: ___________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Post code ________________________ Tel: _____________ > > e-mail ___________________________________________________ > > I am a member of the Library Association (LA): Yes [ ] No [ ] > > I am willing to join the LA, please send application forms [ ] > > I would like to join one of the groups involved in forming the > Diversity Council. [ ] Please send details of [name the > group - see list below]________________________________ > > Signature _______________________________Date _______________ > > Please print this form, fill it in, and send it to: > > Victoria Anibueze > Administrative Officer > The Library Association > 7 Ridgmount Street > London WC1E 7AE > > The constituent groups of the Diversity Council (with > contact names) are: > > Ann Thompson > ACLA > [log in to unmask] > > Gulshan Iqbal ALAG > Hounslow Libraries, 24 Treaty Centre, > High Centre Hounslow, TW3 1ES. > 020 8583 4545/4620; Fax > > Haiyan Kang > Chinese Library Support Group > Charing Cross Library > 4 Charing Cross Road, > London WC2H 0HG > 020 7641 4623 > [log in to unmask] > > Shiraz Durrani > Race, Class and Equality > Merton Libraries, > London Road, > Morden, Surrey. > SM4 5DX > Tel. 020 8545 4061; > [log in to unmask] > > Jaspal S. Grewal SPICE > Ethnic Services, > Central Library > Lichfield Street, > Walsall > WS1 1TR > Tel. 1922 653139 > [log in to unmask] > > Hoi Dong > Vietnamese Library Support Network, > [log in to unmask] -- Ms. Sarah Currier Research Fellow INSPIRAL Project Centre for Digital Library Research Andersonian Library, University of Strathclyde 101 St. James Road, Glasgow G4 0NS United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)141 548 4586; Fax: +44 (0)141 548 2102 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://inspiral.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/