<div dir="auto">Another piece just was published in PW related to the Kurtz editorial. And I agree that libraries and librarians really have never been neutral.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><h1 style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:28px;line-height:32px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Once More for Those in the Back: Libraries Are Not Neutral</h1><h3 style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px;line-height:20px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Five prominent library educators defend the profession’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion</h3><div class="article-byline" style="display:inline;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(153,153,153)" dir="auto">By Nicole A. Cooke, Renate Chancellor, Yasmeen Shorish, Sarah Park Dahlen, and Amelia Gibson | </div><p class="article" style="padding-right:10px;padding-top:0px;margin-top:0px;border-color:rgb(0,0,0)!important;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;color:rgb(0,0,0)!important" dir="auto"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span><br></p><div class="article-date" style="display:inline;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(153,153,153)" dir="auto">Jun 10, 2022</div><p class="article" style="padding-right:10px;padding-top:0px;margin-top:0px" dir="auto"><br></p><p class="article" style="padding-right:10px;padding-top:0px;margin-top:0px" dir="auto">In a February <em>New York Times</em> opinion piece provocatively titled “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/opinion/battle-library-neutrality.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(85,26,139)">The Battle for the Soul of the Library,</a>” conservative commentator Stanley Kurtz derided librarians for what he views as promoting "progressive views on race, policing, sexuality and other issues.” Instead, Kurtz argues, the library should “recapture” its role as a “neutral sphere above the fray.”</p><p class="article" style="padding-right:10px" dir="auto">To battle for the "soul" of the library, however, one must first understand the library's mission and its history. And what Kurtz gets badly wrong is that<a href="https://www.slj.com/story/libraries-are-not-neutral-opinion" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(85,26,139)"> libraries are not now—and have never been—neutral</a>…..</p><div id="articleRelatedEmbed" class="embed-table-left" style="clear:left;overflow:auto;float:none;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:0px;text-align:center;margin-left:0px;min-height:1px;width:213px" dir="auto"><div class="articeRelated-container" aria-hidden="true" style="background-image:none;text-align:left;overflow:auto;padding-bottom:20px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/89576-once-more-for-those-in-the-back-libraries-are-not-neutral.html">https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/89576-once-more-for-those-in-the-back-libraries-are-not-neutral.html</a></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 8:29 AM Matthew Baiocchi via Libs-Or <<a href="mailto:libs-or@omls.oregon.gov">libs-or@omls.oregon.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">(As always, if you manage to read through all (or just some) of what I've written below, I would enjoy discussing it with you. Don't like what I'm saying? Just starting to learn more about anti-racism and interested in talking? Know way more about all this
than I do and you'd like to point out where I'm wrong? I always fancy an honest discussion, and if you'd rather not do it here and you'd prefer confidentiality, you can reach me via Hotmail at my mbaiocchi account.)<br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">I was interested in learning a bit more about Dr. Stan<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">ley Kurtz after reading his op-ed piece, so I will be checking out (library humor!) the books and readings he suggested.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Before beginning the books, though, I wanted to see if Dr. Kurtz had reviewed (or simply discussed) them elsewhere. Bingo! (It may be important to keep in mind that Dr. Kurt<em style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">z
</em>has a relationship with the National Association of Scholars (NAS) (<a href="https://www.nas.org/civics-alliance/who-we-are" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk785445" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">https://www.nas.org/civics-alliance/who-we-are</a>)).</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Dr. Peter Wood, author of <i style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">1620</i>, is the president of the National Association of Scholars (<a href="https://www.nas.org/about-us/staff-boards" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk426474" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">https://www.nas.org/about-us/staff-boards</a>).
From Dr. Kurtz's review of <span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><i style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">1620</i></span> in <i style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">National Review </i>(<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-book-for-our-times-peter-woods-1620-skewers-1619-project/" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk490580" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-book-for-our-times-peter-woods-1620-skewers-1619-project/</a>),
<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">"<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">What, then, of the slaves brought to Virginia in August of 1619, an act which according to the Times, 'inaugurated a barbaric system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years'?
</span>The slaves sold at Jamestown in 1619 were likely treated as indentured servants, and would thus have been freed after a number of years. One may eventually have become a plantation owner himself, a Virginia black man with African slaves of his own.
This African in early Virginia renamed himself Anthony Johnson and successfully sued one of his white neighbors in a Virginia court.</span>"</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">I fear that, when I read this book, it will be hard to stay objective when it seems the author treats slavery as an unpaid internship opportunity. It should be an enlightening read.<br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Dr. Wilfred McClay</span>, author of <i style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Land of Hope</i>, is an Academic Advisory Board member of American Achievement Testing (AAT:
<a href="https://www.aateducation.org/about" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk750483" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">
https://www.aateducation.org/about</a>). From Dr. Kurtz's article on "<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">How to Take Back American History</span>" (<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-to-take-back-american-history/" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk230684" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-to-take-back-american-history/</a>),
"American Achievement Testing (AAT), a new non-profit company, has formed an alliance with the historian Wilfred McClay, whose extraordinary new American history textbook,
<i style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Land of Hope</i>, is unlike any text currently available. In partnership with the National Association of Scholars (NAS), AAT recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to design instructional materials for K–12 U.S.
history courses, with <i style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Land of Hope</i> as their core text </span>" Also in the article, "<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">President Trump touted the NEH grant during his speech and asked Rebarber (CEO of AAT), McClay, and Wood (author of
<i style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">1620</i>) to stand and be recognized</span>" during the White House Conference on American History (video:
<a href="https://youtu.be/7WGvn6N1qPE?t=1109" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk685171" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">
https://youtu.be/7WGvn6N1qPE?t=1109</a>). Interestingly, this also seems to be the venue where President Trump announced his pending formation of "a national commission to promote patriotic education...called the 1776 Commission" by executive order (video:
<a href="https://youtu.be/7WGvn6N1qPE?t=1176" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk803441" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">
https://youtu.be/7WGvn6N1qPE?t=1176</a>).<br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">I don't think I've ever read a book praised by President Trump published by a company praised by President Trump. This should also be an enlightening read.<br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Unfortunately, I don't know much about the founder of 1776 Unites, Robert Wood (<a href="https://1776unites.com/about/our-founder/" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk165882" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">https://1776unites.com/about/our-founder/</a>) who seems
to be a signatory of the NAS' Civics Alliance (<a href="https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/the-civics-alliance-open-letter-and-curriculum-statement" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk644542" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/the-civics-alliance-open-letter-and-curriculum-statement</a>),
or about 1776 Unites itself. I have, however, just finished a book called <i style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America</span></i> (<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1293883993" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk461311" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1293883993</a>)
by 1776 Unites Scholar, <span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">John McWhorter</span> (<a href="https://1776unites.com/essays/author/johnmcwhorter/" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk202626" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">https://1776unites.com/essays/author/johnmcwhorter/</a>), and was that a batten down
the hatches here comes the storm kinda read. I didn't much care for the book itself, but I am looking forward to learning more about 1776 Unites and Robert Wood.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Finally (I know! I know!), in his op-ed piece Dr. Kurtz writes "I favor state laws that bar promotion of critical race theory ideology.</span>" Boy howdy does he ever. In this opinion piece he wrote for
<i style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">National Review</i> (<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/stopping-k-12-indoctrination-is-right/" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk962478" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/stopping-k-12-indoctrination-is-right/</a>) he states,
"<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">The overall effort to prevent CRT indoctrination, however, is both necessary and justified.
<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">It is CRT that is un-American, not efforts to prevent the imposition of this pernicious orthodoxy on schoolchildren.</span></span>" then continues, "<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">I focus here on Texas House Bill 3979, inspired in significant part — but by no means entirely —
by my model legislation published with the National Association of Scholars."</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">I'm not sure a person who literally wrote the book (or "model legislation," in this case) on banning CRT in K-12 education through legislation at the state level (<a href="https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/the-partisanship-out-of-civics-act" id="m_-8277533050603123191LPlnk671285" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/the-partisanship-out-of-civics-act</a>)
can honestly say, "<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">whether the official curriculum promotes classical liberalism, woke orthodoxy or other important perspectives, students should be free to compare, contemplate and debate them all," and "s</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">upporting library neutrality
by balancing books is in everyone’s interest."</span> <br>
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Subject:</b> [Libs-Or] ALA president Patty Wong in the NYT: Your Librarian Wants to Challenge, Not Ban</font>
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sent:</b> Monday, March 7, 2022 4:47 AM<br>
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Subject:</b> [BCALA] ALA president Patty Wong in the NYT: Your Librarian Wants to Challenge, Not Ban</span></p>
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<i style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">New York Times</i>, page A16: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/opinion/letters/libraries-book-banning.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/opinion/letters/libraries-book-banning.html</a> Thanks Patty! lp</p>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">As a young child, I didn’t see myself or my community reflected in my history books or in stories I read. It was as if I didn’t exist. Imagine if every book in the library collection was one where you did not see yourself.</p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">I was grateful for the dedication of my local school and public librarians, who developed collections where I learned more about my own history and that of others. I developed empathy, understanding and a greater appreciation for
the freedom to choose my learning through reading.</p>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">In “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/opinion/battle-library-neutrality.html?searchResultPosition=2" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">The Battle for the Soul of the Library</a>” (Opinion guest essay, Sunday Review, Feb. 27), Stanley Kurtz claims that library
titles and materials support political agendas. This could not be further from the truth.</p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Libraries represent values that are core to democracy. Trained and certified librarians and library workers provide services and collections that inform, engage, illuminate and help people of all ages learn more about the world around
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Libraries across the country are addressing the effects of historical inequality and systemic racism on library users, especially people of color and those who belong to historically marginalized and minority communities. Library
professionals are dedicated to developing collections that allow every person to see themselves in library resources and provide a means to build understanding among all users.</p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">The American Library Association is committed to free access to information and fair treatment of all people. We call on library colleagues at all levels and the public to promote the freedom to read and work toward addressing complex
topics that affect policies, practices or behaviors.</p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">The A.L.A. is proud to engage in ongoing and difficult conversations as we work to strengthen librarianship and improve service for all.</p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">Patty Wong<br>
Santa Clara, Calif.<br>
<em style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">The writer is president of the American Library Association</em></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_-8277533050603123191divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div id="m_-8277533050603123191divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols">
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