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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I hadn’t heard about this, thank you for bringing it to our attention, Bryan! I would certainly like to see OLA and ACRL-OR release
statements in support of a name change.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Here is a link to the petition referenced in the article:
</span><a href="https://www.change.org/p/1000-change-the-name-of-pierce-library"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://www.change.org/p/1000-change-the-name-of-pierce-library</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">To counter the tired argument about “remembering our history,” please take a look at
</span><a href="https://library.eou.edu/about/info/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the library’s current webpage about its name</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">, where
the lives and careers of Cornelia and Walter Pierce are detailed without ever once mentioning Walter Pierce’s KKK ties or his support of eugenics, and only hinting at his racist and xenophobic views toward immigrants and Japanese Americans with a phrase about
his stance against “alien land ownership.” As an afterthought, there’s an extremely unobtrusive link to a pdf of a photocopy of the “</span><a href="https://library.eou.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Pierce-Library-Name-Report-1999.pdf"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Pierce
Library Name Report</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">,” completed in the ‘90s, in which a group of four white faculty and one white trustee recommend against a name change because…Pierce wasn’t an actual,
full-fledged member of the KKK? This is also when they decided to shoehorn Cornelia Pierce in there, even though the library was definitely originally named for the governor alone. For an academic library to whitewash history on its own website like this is,
in my view, appalling and only illustrates why name changes like this are necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#003082">Elena Gleason |
<i>Readers’ Advisory Librarian</i> | Pronouns: she/her<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#003082">City of Hillsboro, Oregon | Hillsboro Public Library
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</span><a href="http://www.wccls.org/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#003082">http://www.wccls.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#003082">My work week is Sunday through Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Libs-Or [mailto:libs-or-bounces@omls.oregon.gov]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bryan Miyagishima<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 29, 2020 11:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Libs-Or] Is there any discussion in the library community about the EOU Pierce Library controversy?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A friend of mine who works at EOU let me know what's going on with
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.lagrandeobserver.com_news_local_eou-2Dstill-2Dconsidering-2Dname-2Dchange-2Dfor-2Dpierce-2Dlibrary_article-5Ff744ee4c-2Daa79-2D11ea-2D90d8-2D0b3f78cb9a88.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=jVj56eFZMBdw2XTy1WmujjlEfwGR4yGcPx8hs15Otm8&r=FJp3qRtUoxlm4xpPIToHBd8jWFlkdyZFx8Sqk3PbAW_axg9jSWe5fvV9PQ7BisTA&m=Kse5e1sxgAjuEYsQ8JR28keUgYD4C8w9W63l4jjeMzI&s=YsqdUOfm8esXb5rcbRbhiNfNbT7Ue8eVqVGjd8AqjTA&e=">
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bryan Miyagishima, Linn-Benton Community College Library<o:p></o:p></p>
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