WLA Pages and Regional Web Sites of Interest
WLA Grassroots
"The Washington Library Association GRASSROOTS! Interest Group is
dedicated to educating public policy makers on library issues,
organizing Association member support for library advocacy efforts, and
training Association members to work effectively with their elected
officials."
WLA - Intellectual Freedom: Resources and Tools for Libraries
WLA site covering Intellectual Freedom associations and interest groups,
free speech and censorship watch, listserves, key documents, toolkits,
local policies and interpretations.
WLA Library Related
Legislation
Links to Washington state bills of interest, the WLA Planning Committee,
Washington state legislature, Federal library legislation, etc.
Reforma Northwest
"Promoting library and information services to Latinos and the
Spanish speaking."
Social Responsibilities and Libraries
ALA - SRRT
Information from the Social Responsibility Round Table of the American
Library Association, including links to the Task Forces and their
resources, Action Council members, newsletter and document archives, and
affiliate organizations.
Libr.org
"Libr.org exists to provide communication services to librarians
and library workers, individually and in groups, who believe in
libraries as a social good and as an ideal pattern for the exchange of
knowledge and ideas, and who wish to promote progressive thought and
action and a concept of social responsibility within the library world
and in the world at large."
Alternative Publications and Resources
Alternatives in
Publication Task Force - (ALA SRRT AIP)
"The Alternatives In Publication Task Force (AIP) is a group of
library professionals that works to promote the acquisition and use of
alternative information resources in libraries. We feel that the
"Library Bill of Rights" is realized by providing access to a
diversity of materials, including those that lie outside the interests
of commercial information providers."
Of and About Alternative
Publications (and Libraries)
Rory Litwin provides this excellent listing of resources,
directories, and associations dealing with alternative media and
libraries. Also includes articles that address just what
"alternative literature" is and its place in libraries.
Employee Rights
ACLU
- Workplace Rights
Recent news, Congressional legislation, resources and tools.
Social Service Resources for the Disenfranchised
in Washington
Access to Justice
The Washington State Access to Justice Board is committed to assuring
that the justice system provides "justice for all" by being
accessible to low income and vulnerable individuals.
Access
Washington - Subject Index
The Washington State Department of Information Services index of state
services.
Real Change: Puget
Sound's Newspaper of the Poor & Homeless
With a mission to "organize, educate, and build alliances to find
community-based solutions to homelessness and poverty," Real Change
publishes "views of poor and homeless people and their
advocates."
Washington State Services
& Resources for the Unemployed
Resource links from the Access Washington web site.
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