<div dir="ltr">Hi library community,<div>The Intellectual Freedom Committee, along with the Oregon Library Association and Parents Defending Schools and Libraries would like to bring awareness to you all regarding the recently announced content rating system from Hoopla / Midwest Tape.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are unaware of this, please see these details shared last week:</div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(8,46,79);font-family:Lato,lato,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://bookriot.com/midwest-tape-hoopla-rating-system/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,87,161)">https://bookriot.com/midwest-tape-hoopla-rating-system/</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(8,46,79);font-family:Lato,lato,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a class="embedly-content" href="https://go.midwesttape.com/l/279222/2024-06-07/2b6mg1/279222/1718377255DkvwJQVd/hoopla_ratings_sheet_us_web_June_2024_update.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,87,161)">https://go.midwesttape.com/l/279222/2024-06-07/2b6mg1/279222/1718377255DkvwJQVd/hoopla_ratings_sheet_us_web_June_2024_update.pdf</a></span></p></div><div><br></div><div>Given this development OLA / IFC / PDSAL have published a statement regarding our assessment of the system, our concerns, and a request to Hoopla to cease the use of this newly created system. The statement is attached to this email, and copy / pasted below. It will also be available via link on the IF website. Feel free to distribute this as needed with your libraries and partners. </div><div><br></div><div>ALA OIF has also published a similar statement.  Please see: <a class="embedly-content" href="https://www.oif.ala.org/oif-statement-regarding-midwest-tape-hoopla-age-and-content-ratings-system/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02);color:rgb(35,82,124);text-decoration-line:none;outline:0px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px">Statement Regarding Midwest Tape/Hoopla Age and Content Ratings System</a></div><div><br></div><div>Please reach out to me, IFC Chair, if you have any questions regarding this development,</div><div>Emily</div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-0202103f-7fff-87f8-047f-1572c8d506b4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:192px;height:79px"><img alt="Text

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an",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Over the course of the past several years, libraries across Oregon have received an extraordinarily increased  number of both formal and informal complaints regarding the materials within their collections.  These complaints are largely due to themes or characters that identify as being LGBTQIA+, while the formal complaint forms use the words ‘inappropriate for minors’ or ‘sexual content’. The newly implemented </span><a href="https://go.midwesttape.com/e/279222/et-us-web-June-2024-update-pdf/2b9kl2/1833163366/h/-GQw4Uww4nj4Zg67kXvu-_oVVSzb3rCWZE8KyDz4G9Y" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Universal Content Rating System</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> from </span><a href="https://bookriot.com/midwest-tape-hoopla-rating-system/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Midwest Tape for Hoopla</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> is in direct violation of the American Library Association’s </span><a href="https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/interpretations/rating-systems" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Library Bill of Rights</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> in that this rating system has been subjectively developed to identify the ‘age appropriateness’ of materials, including content based restrictions due to, among other factors, sexual content of the materials. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">As stated by the </span><a href="https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/labelingratingqa#:~:text=Any%20private%20group's%20rating%20system,the%20Library%20Bill%20of%20Rights." style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">American Library Association</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">“</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(16,24,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Any private group's rating system, regardless of political, doctrinal, or social viewpoint, is subjective and meant to predispose the public's attitude. The use by libraries, therefore, would violate the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(16,24,40);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Library Bill of Rights</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(16,24,40);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. Libraries should remain viewpoint-neutral, providing information that patrons seek about any rating system equitably, regardless of the group's viewpoint.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Additionally, this new rating system is in direct contradiction to library collection development philosophies, where the publishers assign the ‘intended audience’ of the materials.  Publishers already review the content of the materials in assigning the age intended audience through a variety of objective and qualitative processes.  These processes include reviewing the intended audience provided by the author, involving various book reviewers and adding their thoughts and remarks, as well as confirming the intended audience with the publishing legal team (to protect against false advertising concerns) prior to publication.  What Midwest Tape is doing is neither necessary nor objectively sound, and goes against collection development philosophies and industry standards.  To create a system that allows for a Collection Development Librarian or other library staff member to purposefully not select materials due to a subjective, content based rating system would have a chilling effect on the access to diverse materials for minors. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Lastly, it is the IFC’s understanding that the impetus behind the nationwide challenges is a special-interest political agenda that seeks increased control over the ideas and information available to children, particularly in the library setting. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We recognize this effort as part of a nationally-coordinated campaign that threatens the core American values and First Amendment rights </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">of free expression and free access to ideas by muting the voices of historically marginalized groups, just as these communities are finally gaining fair representation in library collections.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Among the many requests of these organizations is to include rating systems on materials for minors.  To provide a tool such as this would have a detrimental impact to all of the libraries across this country trying to stand up for the rights of users, in that this system could easily migrate from the Hoopla platform to library print collections. Libraries nationwide are involved with litigation regarding this type of rating system, and to provide a tool that could be easily applied to print collections would set libraries up for the possibility of legal ramifications. For more information regarding rating systems and implications for libraries, please see:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><a href="https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/07/18/marathon-county-library-board-retains-challenged-book-rejects-rating-system/#google_vignette" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Marathon County Library Board retains challenged book, rejects rating system</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/92858-booksellers-industry-groups-file-suit-to-block-texas-book-rating-law.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Booksellers, Industry Groups File Suit to Block Texas Book Rating Law</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:7pt" role="presentation"><a href="https://bookriot.com/biased-online-book-ratings-systems/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">The Biased Online Book Ratings Systems Undermining Professional Review Sources: Book Censorship News, November 4, 2022</span></a></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">In sum, the Oregon Intellectual Freedom Committee, Oregon Library Association and Parents Defending Schools and Libraries stand firmly behind our</span><a href="https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Library Bill of Rights</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, the </span><a href="https://www.oif.ala.org/oif-statement-regarding-midwest-tape-hoopla-age-and-content-ratings-system/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">American Library Association’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Statement Regarding Midwest Tape/Hoopla Age and Content Rating System</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">and the Freedom to Read statements and against actions which violate the First Amendment rights and dignity of others. The Oregon Library Association and the Intellectual Freedom Committee are officially requesting the removal of the newly created </span><a href="https://go.midwesttape.com/e/279222/et-us-web-June-2024-update-pdf/2b9kl2/1833163366/h/-GQw4Uww4nj4Zg67kXvu-_oVVSzb3rCWZE8KyDz4G9Y" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Universal Content Rating System</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and to reinvest, as a company, in the protection of the rights of users to read freely without undue interference with subjective content-based selection tools.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Emily O’Neal </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">    </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">   </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">   </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">   </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ericka Brunson-Rochette</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">    </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Darin Stewart</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">OIFC Chair 2021-Present</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">   </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">   </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">OLA President, 2023-2024</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">   </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">CEO and Founder, PDSAL</span></p><br></span><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Chair - <a href="mailto:ifc.chair@olaweb.org" target="_blank">ifc.chair@olaweb.org</a><div>Intellectual Freedom Committee <a href="https://www.olaweb.org/if-home" target="_blank">https://www.olaweb.org/if-home</a></div><div>Oregon Library Association <a href="https://www.olaweb.org/" target="_blank">https://www.olaweb.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Disclaimer: all information provided by the IFC is intended for informational purposes only.  This is not to be considered legal advice. Should you need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