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<p style="margin:0in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white">Welcome to Tuesday Topics, a monthly series covering topics with intellectual freedom implications for libraries of all types. Each message is prepared by a member of OLA's
Intellectual Freedom Committee or a guest writer. Questions can be directed to the author of the topic or to the IFC Committee.</span></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Academic Freedom and Intellectual Freedom<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">February 2023</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Today's news is filled with ongoing controversies and backlash over
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/06/09/aacu-and-pen-america-oppose-divisive-concepts-bans"><span style="color:#1155CC">free speech</span></a><span style="color:black">,
</span><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/academic-freedom-faculty-racism/"><span style="color:#1155CC">academic freedom</span></a><span style="color:black">, and
</span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/01/20/rejecting-ap-studies-restricting-libraries-heres-how-desantis-and-his-anti-woke-policies-are-impacting-florida-education/?sh=7dc20e7d7150"><span style="color:#1155CC">political agendas</span></a><span style="color:black">
in higher education. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Academic librarians are charged with upholding both professional research and teaching standards of academic disciplines and the core professional values of librarianship, including access, diversity,
Intellectual Freedom, and social responsibility.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Recognizing a need for academic librarians to be familiar with issues surrounding these values, ACRL-OR created the
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://acrloregon.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Academic-Intellectual-Freedom.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC">Academic & Intellectual Freedom Toolkit</span></a><span style="color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The toolkit provides general information and resources informing academic libraries of professional values and protection, and helps them support colleagues, prepare for challenges and challenge
harmful power structures.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We invite you to take a look, use it, and spread the word!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">"In a time where democratic freedoms are being challenged, the concepts of intellectual freedom and academic freedom require examination as key tenets of our democracy to be upheld, celebrated and honored." (Bev-Freda L. Jackson, “</span><a href="https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-83909-882-620211013/full/html"><span style="color:#1155CC">Intellectual
Freedom, Academic Freedom, and Social Justice</span></a><span style="color:black">”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Tamara Ottum (she/her)
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<a href="https://www.oregon.gov/library/libraries"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.oregon.gov/library/libraries</span></a><u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p>
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