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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Lee Catalano is </span><span style="color:rgb(41,40,41)">Regional Librarian, </span><span style="color:black">Israel Fin
is a </span><span style="color:rgb(41,40,41)">Black Cultural Library</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:rgb(41,40,41)">Advocate Library
Assistant, and </span><span style="color:black">Kirby McCurtis a </span><span style="color:rgb(41,40,41)">Regional Manager of the Multnomah County Public
Library. Please download and read their latest article, “</span><span>Connecting a Community:
The Black Pacific Northwest Collection at Multnomah County’s North Portland
Neighborhood Library,” here:<br>
</span><a href="http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol26_iss1_7" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span>http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol26_iss1_7</span></a><span style="color:black"><span></span></span></font></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Lee
Catalano is a Regional Librarian at Multnomah County Library. It is her seventh
Librarian position at MCL but she doesn’t get bored easily, really.<span></span></span></font></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Israel
Gabriel Fin is a recent member of the Multnomah County Library team serving the
community as a Black Cultural Library Advocate and Library Assistant who is
marrying their love for Black community organizing with Library services.<span></span></span></font></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>Kirby
McCurtis is a Library Manager for Multnomah County Library and the current
President for the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC).</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;text-align:left">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:107%">Please note that the articles in this issue were written
prior to March 2020, and the many changes that libraries have instituted since
March 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic are therefore not reflected in
these articles. The OLA Quarterly coordinator takes full responsibility for the
late publication of this issue<span></span></span></font></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:107%">UX Note: If you download the articles all the way to a PDF
reader, the links will be clickable.<span></span></span></font></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">
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</font></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Thank you,</font></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Charles Wood</font></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">OLA Quarterly Coordinator</font></span><br></div></div>