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academics, debate coaches and others with a professional interest in
intellectual freedom are invited to join a new email news
list: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/ola-ifc" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">ola-ifc email list</span></a> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This list will provide a forum to
share news, information, and resources related to intellectual freedom. 
For example, the OLA Intellectual Freedom Committee and the Oregon State
Library maintain a database of news articles about book challenges and other
intellectual freedom issues in Oregon:  <a href="http://commons.pacificu.edu/iforegon/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Intellectual Freedom Issues in Oregon </span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">News</span><span style="color:blue"> </span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Database</span></a>.  New content is added to this
resource twice a year, which may be of interest to instructors who assign
writing topics related to banned books, as well as others in the library
community.  </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This <a href="http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/ola-ifc" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">ola-ifc email list</span></a> is maintained by the OLA
Intellectual Freedom Committee in cooperation with the Oregon State
Library.  To send an email on this list, address it to <span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:ola-ifc@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">ola-ifc@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a></span>.  </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Please extend this invitation to
teachers, scholars, writers or others in your community who may be interested
in receiving intellectual freedom news.   Here is the link to
subscribe:  <a href="http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/ola-ifc" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">ola-ifc email list</span></a></span></p>

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Feel free to contact us with questions or comments.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Thanks and best wishes,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Roberta Richards and Garnetta
Wilker, OLA IFC co-chairs</span></p>

<font size="2"><br><br></font><div>-- <br><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Roberta Richards<br>Faculty Reference Librarian<br>971-722-4962<br><a href="mailto:rrichard@pcc.edu" target="_blank">rrichard@pcc.edu</a><br>Southeast Library Research Desk:  971-722-6289<br><br><br></div><br><div><br><br></div></div></div>
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