<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#000000">​<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The theme for the 2017 Spring Issue of the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oregon Library Association Quarterly</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> will be as follows:  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Come What May or Apocalypse Now? The Evolution of Oregon Libraries.  </span>​</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:questrial;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">The editorial staff include Jenkins Lumpkin, Guest Editor; Jane Scheppke and Jenn Weston, Editors; Charles Wood, OLAQ Coordinator.  The editorial staff are wholly committed to presenting a wide spectrum of perspectives and voices.</span><br></font></div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-2b4cab00-b0c0-3cdb-a5af-4d7b6e6144e5"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Events on a national, state, and local level have unfolded in dramatic fashion across all boundaries within the Oregon library landscape.  Aside from the personal, how have these events changed the professional, societal, or cultural role of libraries - if at all?  Do professional ethics have a new place in this landscape, and if so - is it a place of rejoicing and revelry or mourning and dissolution?  </font></span></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In the 2017 Spring issue of the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OLA Quarterly</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, you're invited to explore the currents that have flowed through your professional life and your library.  Has the manner in which we serve our communities changed?  Should it?  Has your perspective changed on the intersection of your personal, political, and professional spheres?  For you, has this been an introduction to the art of losing?  Or, in your library, has it been a time of renewed growth and independence?</span></font></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">What happens next?  How do we combat our own fatigue - either of compassion or resistance -  or both?  What does all of this mean?  </font></span></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">I have no idea.  </font></span></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Let's try this:  tell me your stories.  Share your experiences with your colleagues, compatriots, and friends throughout the Oregon library landscape.  You can "go as far inside as you need to," and we'll listen.  Together, let's try to find true North. </font></span></p><font color="#000000"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">With thanks and acknowledgment:</font></span></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bishop, Elizabeth. "One Art." </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Complete Poems 1926-1979.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.</span></font></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Morrison, Toni</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  Beloved: A Novel.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New York:  Knopf, 1987.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Submission Details:</font></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">For consideration, potential authors may submit ideas, abstracts, and proposals to</font></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="mailto:jenkins.h.lumpkin@gmail.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jenkins Lumpkin</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Please limit initial submissions to 250 words or fewer.  Submissions will be accepted until no later than April 1st, 2017.  </font></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Additional OLAQ information</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/author_instructions.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Author instructions</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/about.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Provisional publication schedule </span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Questions?  Contact </span><a href="mailto:jenkins.h.lumpkin@gmail.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jenkins Lumpkin</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or </span><a href="mailto:wuchakewu@gmail.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Charles Wood</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:questrial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><br></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:questrial;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap">The OLAQ is a professional journal that showcases the writing and work of library employees in Oregon, and represents Oregon library staff globally. Authors included in OLAQ retain the rights to her/his work.  OLAQ is indexed by Library Literature & Information Science, as well as Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts. Full text of OLAQ is also available through HW Wilson's Library Literature and Information Science Full Text, EBSCO Publishing's Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text, and the Digital Commons Network. </span>​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br clear="all"></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr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