[Libs-Or] ACRL-OR statement on Executive Order No. 13950

[ACRL Oregon]

Colleagues,


On September 22, 2020, the White House issued Executive Order No. 13950 on
“Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-race-sex-stereotyping/>.”
The Association of College and Research Libraries/Academic Division of the
Oregon Library Association (ACRL-OR) strongly opposes Executive Order
13950. The Order has implications far beyond the federal workforce and is
antithetical to the values, missions, and goals of the ACRL-OR.

ACRL-OR is committed to progressing racial and gender equity. ACRL-OR is
committed to advocating and taking action toward creating a culture amongst
its members and their organizations that reinforces the values of equity,
diversity, and inclusion. Further, academic libraries and academic
librarians support evidence-based research, theories, and practice. The
Executive Order willfully denies the validity of a growing body of evidence
and academic research, which proves the corrosive and deep-seeded racism
endemic in the social, legal, and cultural history of the United States.

ACRL-OR will continue to:

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   show up in support of racial justice
   <https://acrloregon.org/2020/08/28/acrl-or-statement-for-racial-justice/>
   ;
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   create productive space for dialogue about systemic racism and dominant
   white culture as it applies to libraries and library workers;
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   provide Oregon academic libraries with professional development and
   staff training opportunities that counteract anti-blackness, racism, and
   white supremacy culture and sex and gender discrimination in librarianship;
   and
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   use our strength as a professional organization to continue to work
   toward our collective liberation.
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