SRRT Resolutions 1990: Resolution on Guidelines for Librarians Interacting with South Africa

Text of 1990 SRRT resolution calling for guidelines for librarians dealing with South Africa under apartheid.
Resolution on Guidelines for Librarians Interacting with South Africa

Adopted at 1990 Annual Conference

WHEREAS: The government of South Africa has not yet dismantled the apartheid system; and

WHEREAS: The Mass Democratic Movement within South Africa has been greatly encouraged by economic sanctions and the academic, cultural, and sports boycotts; and

WHEREAS: The Mass Democratic Movement and the African National Congress have recently called for increased sanctions to speed the process of negotiations; and

WHEREAS: The Mass Democratic Movement and the African National Congress have modified the academic and cultural boycott, calling for a selective boycott aimed at the government and all other apartheid institutions; and

WHEREAS: American libraries have in the past given equal importance to the First Amendment right of freedom of expression, and to the Fourteenth Amendment legal end to racial discrimination;

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That the membership of the American Library Association endorse the Guidelines for Librarians Interacting with South Africa as attached [see SRRT Newsletter Sept. 1989, pp. 7-9].

SRRT Newsletter Issue 97, p. 3