ALA Library Support Staff Interests Round Table approves name change

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ALA News Release


For Immediate Release


October 2001

ALA Library Support Staff Interests Round Table approves name change

The members of the American Library Association (ALA) Library Support Staff Interests Round Table recently approved a new acronym. Formerly known as SSIRT, the round table will now be known as LSSIRT.

LSSIRT's membership is composed of proactive library personnel who are essential to the cultural, educational and economic life of the nation's libraries. They represent academic, public, school, corporate and special libraries. They have an interest in other ALA groups and interrelate with all library personnel.

The purpose of the LSSIRT is to provide an arena within ALA for addressing a wide variety of issues of concern to library support staff, including but not limited to, basic training programs, education, career development, job duties and responsibilities. LSSIRT also disseminates information to local, regional, state and national support staff organizations.

For more information on LSSIRT and its current activities, visit their
Web site or contact the current president of LSSIRT, Martha Parsons (
parsonsm@energy.wsu.edu) Washington State University in Olympia.