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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Daina,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This looks good to me – thanks for your prompt action! I wasn’t sure it sounded right to say the “ORS has the opportunity to extend a scholarship…” so I added
a few words; feel free to take ‘em or leave ‘em! The grammar-nut inside me would also propose inserting a comma:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">Organizers for the</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Oregon Reference Summit
<s>has </s></span></i><b><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">have</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> the opportunity to extend a scholarship to
a library staff member from an underrepresented background. To further our commitment to diversity and inclusion</span></i><b><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">,
</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">we seek the participation of diverse library staff to attend the Oregon Reference Summit. We encourage applicants from racial, ethnic, or other underrepresented
backgrounds to apply for this scholarship. This scholarship covers the full cost of registration.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you again for your work on this,<br>
Sue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sue Ludington<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Law Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Lane County Law Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">125 East 8<sup>th</sup> Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Eugene, OR 97401<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">sue.ludington@co.lane.or.us | 541.682.4337<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Answerland-summit [mailto:answerland-summit-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Daina Dickman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 23, 2018 2:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> answerland-summit@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Answerland-summit] Scholarship update/scholarship for underrepresented staff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of our scholarship recipients declined her scholarship as her work had agreed to pay for her to go. So we still have 1 remaining scholarship to fill. I am planning to send out a call for applicants from under-represented backgrounds.
<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white"> I am thinking a deadline of Monday May 7, and I will notify people by that Friday.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">I'd appreciate any feedback about language.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After looking at ALA's Spectrum Scholarship, this is my proposed language. I will probably send this out tomorrow evening (my new employer blocks Google Drive, so I will have to do it after work).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Oregon Reference Summit has the opportunity to extend a scholarship to a library staff member from an underrepresented background. To further our commitment </span></i><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#FEFEFE">to
diversity and inclusion we seek the participation of diverse library staff to attend the Oregon Reference Summit. We encourage applicants from racial, ethnic, or other underrepresented backgrounds to apply for this scholarship. This scholarship covers the
full cost of registration.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#FEFEFE">I will change the "Tell us anything else" open ended question to this, modeled after a scholarship app at Portland State:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt">How has your experience as a library staff member from an underrepresented background contributed to your library and/or reference work?</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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Daina<o:p></o:p></p>
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