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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E75B6">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E75B6">Sorry if this has already been posted, but I just learned about this new resource and thought some of you might be interested. According to an ALA
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2019/02/hateful-conduct-libraries-new-ala-resource">
<span style="color:#2E75B6">press release</span></a>, “[T]<span style="background:#FEFEFE">he Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services (ODLOS) and the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) launched a new resource, ‘</span><u><a href="http://www.ala.org/advocacy/hatefulconduct"><span style="color:#2E75B6;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FEFEFE">Hateful
Conduct in Libraries: Supporting Library Workers and Patrons</span></a><span style="background:#FEFEFE">.</span></u><span style="background:#FEFEFE">’ This document, created collaboratively by the two offices, responds to requests and inquiries by ALA members
seeking to address a spike in reported hate crimes in libraries across the United States, which the two offices began tracking in 2016…</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E74B5;background:#FEFEFE">[it]
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E75B6;background:#FEFEFE">outlines best practices on how to create environments that discourage hate speech and hateful conduct in the library, example steps of what library workers should do after an incident, and
how libraries can better meet community needs…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E75B6;background:#FEFEFE">FYI,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E75B6;background:#FEFEFE">Jen </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E75B6"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Jen Maurer, MLS
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</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">School Library Consultant, State Library of Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2E74B5"><a href="mailto:jennifer.maurer@state.or.us"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">jennifer.maurer@state.or.us</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> | 503-378-5011 |
</span><span style="color:#2E74B5"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/library/libraries"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">www.oregon.gov/library/libraries</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">
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