<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">You're invited! </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Please fill out this sign-up form to get the Zoom link right before the event and/or the recording afterwards.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://forms.gle/VJ8pVAqDHL3LSGhr5" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/VJ8pVAqDHL3LSGhr5</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Intellectual Freedom Discussion: Dr. Seuss, "Ook and Gluk", and Library Policies/Practices</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Wednesday, April 14, noon-1 pm (panel discussion will be recorded)</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Seuss’s estate announces that it will</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/books/dr-seuss-books.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt"> stop publishing 6 of his 48 books</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">. Scholastic and Dav Pilkey decide to </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/books/dav-pilkey-ook-gluk-racism.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt">discontinue "The Adventures of Ook and Gluk", a Captain Underpants book</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> because of harmful racial stereotypes. How should librarians respond? How do we address racism, stereotypes, censorship, public demand, the weeding process, “cancel culture†and related issues? Are our weeding criteria sufficient to remove racist books? Should we put them in “historical†or “educational†collections instead? How can we be proactive rather than reactive in curating library collections? Join us as a panel of school and public librarians address these weighty and complex concerns, then contribute to a group discussion about library policies and practices.</span></p></div><span id="gmail-:4np" class="gmail-J-J5-Ji" style="display:inline-flex;min-height:28px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:22px"><div class="gmail-pG" id="gmail-:4nm" style="font-size:0px;padding:0px;width:20px;height:20px;display:inline-block;margin:0px 8px 0px 0px"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">Miranda Doyle (she/her)</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif">District Teacher-Librarian, LOSD</span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">📚 </span><span style="background-color:initial;font-family:"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","noto color emoji","android emoji",emojisymbols,"emojione mozilla","twemoji mozilla","segoe ui symbol";color:rgb(0,0,0)">🔠</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTBid5ikw5r6LzszG7D9DlNvk0reRrXuppC5w0j9bymVwL-Om7suKdjBQ_Omxg74M5qdR2zftyMz_9A/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" style="text-align:center" target="_blank">Virtual Library</a> & <a href="http://soraapp.com/library/lakeoswegoor/" target="_blank">LOSD ebooks/audio</a></div><div><span style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">💻  </span><span style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://losdhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us" target="_blank">Tech Work Order</a> </span></div><div>â˜Žï¸ Google Voice: <span style="font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif">(503) 272-1411 </span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>