<div dir="ltr">Thank you for this beautiful document ACRL Oregon!<div><br></div><div>This is very nicely done.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Max </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 8:44 AM OTTUM Tamara K * SLO 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;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-3105050538059749993">
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<p style="margin:0in"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color: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:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">February 2023</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Today's news is filled with ongoing controversies and backlash over
</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/06/09/aacu-and-pen-america-oppose-divisive-concepts-bans" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">free speech</span></a><span style="color:black">,
</span><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/academic-freedom-faculty-racism/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">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" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">political agendas</span></a><span style="color:black">
in higher education. </span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt"><a href="https://acrloregon.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Academic-Intellectual-Freedom.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Academic & Intellectual Freedom Toolkit</span></a><span style="color:black">.</span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt;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:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">We invite you to take a look, use it, and spread the word!</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></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" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Intellectual
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</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#ffffff">-</font></div><span style="color:rgb(120,63,4)">Max Macias </span><a href="https://www.name-coach.com/max-macias" style="font-family:"open sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.538em;background-color:transparent;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;color:rgb(136,91,192);outline:0px" target="_blank"><img alt="A button with "Hear my name" text for name playback in email signature" src="https://www.name-coach.com/images/emailsig/email-sig.jpeg" style="border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 15px;"></a></div><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-size:12.8px">Pronouns: | He, Him, His/They |</b></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"><b>Strengths:</b> Input, Ideation, Context, Connectedness, Intellection</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif">Social media is mind control. </font></div><div><br></div>The ideas expressed in these emails in no way represent any organization's viewpoints, or opinions. The opinions, ideas and reflections are my own personal intellectual property.<br><div><br><br>Publishing<br><br><a href="http://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lowrider Librarian</a></div><div><a href="https://www.librarianswithspines.com/" target="_blank">Librarians With Spines </a><br></div></div></div>