About the LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund

The LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund was established in 1970 as a special trust in memory of Dr. LeRoy C. Merritt. It is devoted to the support, maintenance, medical care, and welfare of librarians and library workers who, in the Trustees’ opinion, are:

• Denied employment rights or discriminated against on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, age, disability, or place of national origin; or
• Denied employment rights because of defense of intellectual freedom; that is, threatened with loss of employment or discharged because of their stand for the cause of intellectual freedom, including promotion of freedom of the press, freedom of speech, the freedom of librarians to select items for their collections from all the world’s written and recorded information, and defense of privacy rights.

The Merritt Fund is governed by a board of three trustees who are elected by donors of the Fund.

Site hosting and links to the Merritt Humanitarian Fund (trust) are provided complimentary by the American Library Association as an item of interest to librarians. The trust is not an American Library Association fund.

To add an image/link to the Merritt Humanitarian Fund, visit the Merritt Fund Committee of the Intellectual Freedom Round Table.

OIF Staff Liaisons to the LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund

LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 4226
Fax: 312-280-4227
merrittfund@ala.org
http://www.merrittfund.org

Judith F. Krug
Merritt Fund Secretary
Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 4222
Fax: 312-280-4227
jkrug@ala.org

Jonathan Kelley
Merritt Fund Program Coordinator
Telephone: 800-545-2433, ext. 4221
Fax: 312-280-4227
jokelley@ala.org

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