<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Wood</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org">dwood@ala.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:48 PM<br>Subject: [alacro-l] RESOLUTION ON GUN VIOLENCE<br>To: "<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>><br><br><br>





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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Resolved</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">, that the American Library Association (ALA) on behalf of its members<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">deplores the gun violence that materially affects libraries in the communities we serve; and<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">will work with state chapters and affiliates to support legislation that allows the prohibition of the carrying
 of guns in or near libraries and other educational institutions.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Adopted by the Council of the American Library Association<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Jane Corry<br>Youth Librarian-Belmont Neighborhood Library<br>Multnomah County Library<br>503.988.5382<br><br><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium">"You would think that if there is anything in the world that we can all agree on is an unequivocal good, a moral absolute, an end in itself, it is the happiness and health of children."  -Alison Gopnick</span><br></div></div></div></div>
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