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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you Cynthia for posting this.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In the last OLA conference, we had an informal meeting to launch a new Chapter of REFORMA in Oregon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We decided to have our first informal meeting during the Fall. The librarians of MCL were so generous as to offer one of their libraries to have our first formal
and organizational meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">For those of you who are interested to participate in this chapter, please send me an email so I can add the names in the list for the first meeting (the date
for the meeting will be established at the end of the summer).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">After Max posted his opinion through this channel and generated so much discussion, it’s crucial and urgent to begin a conversation about not only diversity
but also inclusion. This is an imperative issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Martín Blasco<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Outreach Librarian for Latino and Multicultural Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Washington County Cooperative Library Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">503-681-5093<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:martinb@wccls.org"><span style="color:blue">martinb@wccls.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“Que otros se jacten de las páginas que han escrito;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">a mí me enorgullecen las que he leído.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“Let others brag about the pages which they have written,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m proud of those which I have read.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jorge Luis borges</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><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""> Libs-Or [mailto:libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Cynthia Thiessen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 11, 2014 11:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Libs-Or] A poem for the occasion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">For those Oregon librarians who are Spanish-speakers, or who are interested in issues re. Latino issues in libraries, don't forget the organization REFORMA - there is national and regional membership.
And check out April postings, <a href="http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/pipermail/libs-or/2014-April/007597.html">
[Libs-Or] REFORMA meeting </a> for those interested in an Oregon chapter.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Cynthia Thiessen<br>
Senior Reference Librarian<br>
Salem Public Library<br>
585 Liberty St. SE<br>
Salem, OR 97301<br>
(503) 588-6184<br>
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"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; <br>
and a people who mean to be their own governours, <br>
must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."<br>
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James Madison, over the Library of Congress<o:p></o:p></p>
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