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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Sellen’s librarianship provided a platform for wide-ranging activism, gaining particular notoriety for her work on feminist issues in the profession. Sellen was active in the founding of the<span> </span></span><a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Flibr.org%2Fsrrt%2Findex.php&t=NzdhZjFlZDE3MjhhNDExOWU0YjZlZTg5YzA2M2M3N2Q0M2ZkMTBlOSxTcEJJY0RvNg%3D%3D&b=t%3AmbBWSKl-DvfQkqR8zDOi2w&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwomenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F172169472685%2Fbetty-carol-bc-sellen&m=0" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(168,6,11);text-decoration:none;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">, a co-founder and 1982-3 chair of the<span> </span></span><a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Flibr.org%2Fftf%2Fhistory.html&t=NTI0NDNiNDA3NjExMTdiMjNkZjI1YThiM2IxZDBmNjJkYjdiNDllNCxTcEJJY0RvNg%3D%3D&b=t%3AmbBWSKl-DvfQkqR8zDOi2w&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwomenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F172169472685%2Fbetty-carol-bc-sellen&m=0" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(168,6,11);text-decoration:none;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">ALA Feminist Task Force</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">, and chair of the<span> </span></span><a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ala.org%2Faboutala%2Fcommittees%2Fala%2Fala-coswl&t=YWQ3MTI2YjU2MmFjNjdmZjY0ZWEwOTQ2ODVlYjNkZjgzYzlkMTkwMyxTcEJJY0RvNg%3D%3D&b=t%3AmbBWSKl-DvfQkqR8zDOi2w&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwomenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F172169472685%2Fbetty-carol-bc-sellen&m=0" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(168,6,11);text-decoration:none;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship </a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">following that....[Much more at <a href="http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/172169472685/betty-carol-bc-sellen">http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/172169472685/betty-carol-bc-sellen</a>]<br><br></span> ---------------------<br><br>I'm adding a personal note here. Betty-Carol is someone I always admired. Not included in this piece is the work she did with the Feminist Task Force to arrange several pre-conferences that I will never forget. She really was the guiding force.: "Librarians as Colleagues:Working Together Across Racial Lines" written about in <i>Women in Libraries </i>(March 1986 - <a href="http://libr.org/ftf/WIL%20Archives/v15n4%20mar1986.pdf">http://libr.org/ftf/WIL%20Archives/v15n4%20mar1986.pdf</a> and the notes from the pre-conference September 1987 <a href="http://libr.org/ftf/WIL%20Archives/v17n1%20sep1987.pdf">http://libr.org/ftf/WIL%20Archives/v17n1%20sep1987.pdf</a>). This led to the January 1988 all day workshop "White Women Working Together on Personal and Institutional Racism" put together by both Betty-Carol Sellen and Polly Thistlewaite. Polly wrote about the workshop in the April 1988 edition of <i>Women in Libraries</i>, "The Ways of White Folks," <a href="http://libr.org/ftf/WIL%20Archives/v17n4%20apr1988.pdf">http://libr.org/ftf/WIL%20Archives/v17n4%20apr1988.pdf</a>. This led to the ALA 1988 Conference program in New Orleans, "Librarians as Colleagues Across Racial Lines: Strategies for Action." The report of this program is in <i>Women in Libraries</i>, September 1988, pg. 2, <a href="http://libr.org/ftf/WIL%20Archives/v18n1%20sep1988.pdf">http://libr.org/ftf/WIL%20Archives/v18n1%20sep1988.pdf</a>. You can actually get many ideas for future activities by reading through past issues of <i>Women in Libraries. </i>1970 - 2002 Issues may be found here: <a href="http://libr.org/ftf/WIL/wil.html">http://libr.org/ftf/WIL/wil.html</a>. Current issues may be found at <a href="http://ftfinfo.wikispaces.com/Women+in+Libraries">http://ftfinfo.wikispaces.com/Women+in+Libraries</a>. (Yes we know Wikispaces is closing but we will be moving all content to a new location soon.)<br clear="all"><div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">Diedre Conkling</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Lincoln County Library District</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">P.O. Box 2027</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Newport, OR 97365</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066</span></i><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Work email</span></i></span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt;font-style:normal">: </span></i><a href="mailto:diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><font color="#0000ff">diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org</font></span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Home email: </span></i></span></i><a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">diedre08@gmail.com</span></i></a></div>
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