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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Jen Ferro is a Reference and Instruction Librarian
at Lane Community College Library. Please download and read her latest article,
“</span><span>Our House
is on Fire: How Librarians can Help Young Climate Activists,” here: </span><a href="http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol25_iss4_10" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span>http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol25_iss4_10</span></a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none"><span></span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>From
Jen’s article: “Of course, libraries have long been considered bastions of
democracy, and librarians the staunch defenders of civil liberties, the Bill of
Rights, the freedom to read, the right to privacy, and intellectual freedom.
Nancy Kranichin focused on the function of libraries in democracies during her
tenure as ALA President from 2000 to 2001. She advocated that libraries play an
active role in civic education, including acting as “civic information
centers,” gathering difficult-to-locate materials, but also that they serve as
active educators, teaching “youth to participate in community problem solving”
(2012, p. 81). In the well-known radical collection of essays <i>Revolting Librarians</i>,
Celeste West contended that “true professionalism implies evolution, if not revolution;
those who ‘profess’ a calling have certain goals and standards for improving existence,
which necessarily means moving, shaking, transforming it” (1972, p. [i]). It is
not all that revolutionary to call for librarians to begin providing young
activists with the information they need to preserve their own freedom and safety
as they attempt to save the very civilization that makes our profession possible.”<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Jen Ferro has been a professional librarian
for 20 years. Her current research interests include sustainability,
information literacy curriculum design, media manipulation and disinformation,
artificial intelligence, mass surveillance, and civil liberties. Jen grew up on
an Arizona cattle ranch and is also an actor, vocalist, and playwright. She is
co-founder of the Lane Climate Action Team at Lane Community College. You can
find them at </span><a href="http://www.lanecat.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span>www.lanecat.org</span></a><span style="color:black">.<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

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article was written before the events that began this spring. The OLA Quarterly
Coordinator takes full responsibility for the lateness of this issue.<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">





</span></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you,</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Charles Wood</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">OLA Quarterly Coordinator</span></font><br></div></div>