Editing American Library Association (section)

====Committees====

The Committee on Literacy develops and recommends the association's policies related to the promotion of multiple literacies.<ref>[https://www.ala.org/aboutala/committees/ala/ala-literacy Committee on Literacy.] American Library Association.</ref>

The Chapter Relations Committee develops and recognizes chapters as integral components of ALA, encourages discussion, activities and programs that support the mutual interests of ALA and the chapters.<ref>[https://www.ala.org/aboutala/committees/ala/ala-crc ALA Chapter Relations Committee] American Library Association.</ref>

In 1970, the ALA founded the "Task Force on Gay Liberation, the first professional [[lesbian]], [[gay]], [[bisexual]] and [[transgender]] organization, which became the "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT), now the [[Rainbow Round Table]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Poole |first1=Alex H. |title='Tearing the Shroud of Invisibility': Communities of Protest Information Practices and the Fight for LGBTQ Rights in US Librarianship |journal=The Library Quarterly |date=October 2020 |volume=90 |issue=4 |pages=530–562 |doi=10.1086/710255 }}</ref><ref name=glbtrt>{{cite web | title=Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table (GLBTRT) |date=October 30, 2006 |url=http://www.ala.org/glbtrt/ | publisher=ALA | access-date=2010-09-01| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100916223855/http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/glbtrt/index.cfm| archive-date= 16 September 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref name=gittings>{{cite book | last=Gittings | first=Barbara | title=Gays in library land : the Gay and Lesbian Task Force of the American Library Association : the first sixteen years | publisher=B. Gittings | publication-place=Philadelphia, PA | year=1990 | oclc=22581772 }}</ref>

In 1976, the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship (COSWL) was established as an ALA Council Committee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/offices/hrdr/abouthrdr/hrdrliaisoncomm/statusofwomen/committeestatus|title=COSWL|work=ala.org|date=July 26, 2006}}</ref><ref name="library.illinois.edu">{{Cite web |url=http://www.library.illinois.edu/archives/ala/holdings/?p=creators/creator&id=3540 |title=Status of Women in Librarianship, Committee on the &#124; the American Lib… |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120804020111/http://www.library.illinois.edu/archives/ala/holdings/?p=creators/creator&id=3540 |archive-date=4 August 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>