<div dir="ltr">FYI,<div><br></div><div>Suzanne L. Sager</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Wood</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org">dwood@ala.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:08 AM<br>Subject: [alacro-l] Five ethnic affiliates of ALA have collaborated to officially form the Joint Council of Librarians of Color, Inc. (JCLC Inc.)<br>To: "<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The five ethnic affiliates of the American Library Association have collaborated to officially form the Joint
Council of Librarians of Color, Inc.(JCLC Inc.), a nonprofit organization that advocates for and addresses the common needs of the ethnic affiliates.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Coming together through JCLC Inc. are the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), the Chinese
American Librarians Association (CALA), the American Indian Library Association (AILA), the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) and REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking.
These five organizations each have a decades-long tradition of promoting the library and information needs of their constituent communities through various endeavors, including providing scholarships for students, awarding grants to libraries for cultural
programing, acquiring and donating relevant library materials and advising ALA and other professional organizations of constituent concerns.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The newly formed nonprofit follows and takes its name from two successful joint conferences co-sponsored by
these organizations; the first held in 2006 in Dallas and the second in 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri. Serving as the first officers for the Joint Council are Dr. Jerome Offord, Jr. as president, Dr. Kenneth Yamashita as vice president, Dora Ho as treasurer,
Heather Devine-Hardy as secretary and Isabel Espinal as director at large.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“The JCLC concept was just too powerful not to establish an organization that could keep it going strongly forward,”
Offord said. “When our organizations come together as a united front and put our energies and numbers together, we are better able to confront and address certain critical issues. We believe there is great power in this unity.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">JCLC Inc.’s official purpose statement is: “To promote librarianship within communities of color, support literacy
and the preservation of history and cultural heritage, collaborate on common issues, and to host the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color every four to five years.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">JCLC Inc. has not yet established its Web presence, but each member organization has a web site where the public
can find more information: BCALA (<a href="http://www.bcala.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.bcala.org</span></a>), CALA (<a href="http://cala-web.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://cala-web.org/</span></a>), APALA (<a href="http://www.apalaweb.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.apalaweb.org/</span></a>),
AILA (<a href="http://ailanet.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://ailanet.org/</span></a>) and REFORMA (<a href="http://www.reforma.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.reforma.org/</span></a>).<br>
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More updates regarding JCLC will be forthcoming<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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