<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for more info, Sarah. I thought that maybe one of the state groups might want to lend support to the cause.</div><div><br></div><div>Bryan<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 12:05 PM Sarah Ralston <<a href="mailto:sralston@eou.edu">sralston@eou.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Bryan,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for bringing this up. There has been a lot of action and discussion on this side of the state for quite some time, but none that I have seen from our state organizations. However, the Observer headline is a little misleading. There is a lot of movement in the university community to "de-name" the library, and the board of trustees is supposed to hold a special session soon (we were told June or July) to make a final decision. There was a committee that was gathering historical evidence to justify the change recommendation, but they were thwarted by the pandemic - they had a trip planned to the U of O archives, which holds the Pierce papers, and that was canceled Spring term. However, the EOU president announced to the campus community internally in early June that he was going to recommend the de-naming to the board regardless. </div><div><br></div><div>If ACRL-OR or OLA is interested in writing an advocacy letter, they should do so soon, and address that to the <a href="https://www.eou.edu/governance/" target="_blank">EOU Board of Trustees</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Sarah</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:54 AM Bryan Miyagishima <<a href="mailto:miyagib@linnbenton.edu" target="_blank">miyagib@linnbenton.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>A friend of mine who works at EOU let me know what's going on with <a href="https://www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/eou-still-considering-name-change-for-pierce-library/article_f744ee4c-aa79-11ea-90d8-0b3f78cb9a88.html" target="_blank">possibly renaming the library</a>. I'd like to know if there's any discussions within OLA or ACRL-OR taking place as to whether the greater library community could lend support to this cause. And I suppose I'd like to know if the associations are taking a neutral stance and why.</div><div><br></div><div>I know that various of our groups have done advocacy work many times in the past for individual libraries. It could be that we could do some advocacy for EOU students and faculty as well in this particular case.</div><div><br></div><div>Bryan Miyagishima, Linn-Benton Community College Library<br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","Book Antiqua",Palatino,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:20px"><strong>Sarah Ralston </strong><br>Associate Professor/ Instruction Librarian</span><div><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","Book Antiqua",Palatino,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:20px">Pierce Library</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","Book Antiqua",Palatino,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:20px">Eastern Oregon University</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","Book Antiqua",Palatino,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:20px"><a href="mailto:sralston@eou.edu" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">sralston@eou.edu</a><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">(541) 962-3474</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="gmail-m_1407627092009323471DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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