<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:italic;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Intellectual Freedom, Privacy and Libraries: Hot Topics in Washington, Oregon and Nationally.</span><br>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Are
you up-to-speed on the intellectual freedom issues facing your library?
Come to this lively pre-conference session at the OLA/WLA
conference </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">on April 24th </span>for an update from Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of
ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, and local experts. </span></p><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:italic;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
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Topics:</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> </span></p><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Challenges to Library and Curriculum Materials: Trends and Support</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Privacy and Confidentiality, topics include</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Censorship and Control of the Internet </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Internet Filtering</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">New & Proposed Laws affecting Intellectual Freedom & Libraries, including </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Library employees as Mandatory Reporters of Child & Elder Abuse -</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:italic;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> Oregon’s </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">New Law </span></p>
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Issues will be addressed on both the federal and state levels. There
will be plenty of practical guidance for addressing these issues and
time for questions.</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Register at the OLA/WLA conference web site: </span><a href="http://www.wla.org/registration" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.wla.org/registration</span></a><br>
<br>Sponsored by the Oregon and Washington Intellectual Freedom Committees<br>-- <br>Roberta Richards<br>Faculty Reference Librarian<br>Sylvania Library: <a href="tel:971-722-4962" value="+19717224962" target="_blank">971-722-4962</a><br>
<a href="mailto:rrichard@pcc.edu" target="_blank">rrichard@pcc.edu</a><br>
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