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<span style="font-weight: 700;">ACRL Oregon Seeks an Interim Legislative Board of Directors Rep </span></div>
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Interested in learning more about the connection between Oregon legislation and academic libraries? We seek an interim to finish out the ACRL OR Legislative Representative appointment. The
<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="https://acrloregon.org/about-acrl-oregon/position-descriptions/legislative/" id="OWAcf855897-b2ea-a4d2-ea9e-27ac4bccdebb" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Legislative
Representative</a></u></span> facilitates knowledge of and involvement in local, state, and federal public policy issues for the ACRL-OR board and membership. The term ends September 2025, with an option to renew. (Enough time to engage meaningfully and then
to decide to keep going or to turn your attention elsewhere.)</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Overview of Responsibilities:</span></div>
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Serves on the <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="https://www.olaweb.org/ldlc" id="OWAc12a9ffa-7902-36c4-6a23-8e78ccca2287" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">OLA Library Development and Legislative
Committee, (LDLC) as an ex officio</a></u></span>, which meets monthly and can be attended remotely. This committee sets plans and priorities for improvement of libraries in Oregon.</div>
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Participates in Oregon Library Legislative Day, held this February 11, 2025, where librarians meet with, advocate for funding, and discuss proposed library bills with their local legislatures in Salem.</div>
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Advises ACRL-OR Board on legislative issues affecting Oregon libraries in higher education through email or attending Board meetings (every other month).</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Term: Now until September 2025, with an option to renew</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Interested? Please email Jane Nichols at acrlor@olaweb.org</span></div>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;">Jane Nichols, 2024-25 ACRL OR President</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: white;">Jane Nichols, MLIS (she/her/</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: blue; background-color: white;"><u><a href="https://medium.com/@mrsexsmith/dear-cis-people-who-put-your-pronouns-on-your-hello-my-name-is-nametags-78c047ed7af1" id="OWA25428f11-226e-8531-ef44-9a7d6c3efc42" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://medium.com/@mrsexsmith/dear-cis-people-who-put-your-pronouns-on-your-hello-my-name-is-nametags-78c047ed7af1" originalsrc="https://medium.com/@mrsexsmith/dear-cis-people-who-put-your-pronouns-on-your-hello-my-name-is-nametags-78c047ed7af1" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">About
pronouns</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: white;">)</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);"><br>
Associate Professor | Interim Resource Acquisition & Sharing Department Head<br>
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Oregon State University Libraries & Press<br>
jane.nichols@oregonstate.edu</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: white;"><i>Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR is located within the traditional homelands of the Marys River or Ampinefu Band of Kalapuya. Following
the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 (Kalapuya etc. Treaty), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations in Western Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); background-color: white;"><i><u><a href="https://www.grandronde.org/" id="OWA373fb172-81e6-7bfd-6c17-a8bea0058215" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" originalsrc="https://www.grandronde.org/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.grandronde.org</a></u></i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: white;"><i>)
and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians (</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: blue; background-color: white;"><i><u><a href="http://www.ctsi.nsn.us/" id="OWA6a70b89b-6bf3-303d-06a7-f08bb3bc8d74" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="http://www.ctsi.nsn.us/" originalsrc="http://www.ctsi.nsn.us/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://ctsi.nsn.us</a></u></i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: white;"><i>).
</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: blue; background-color: white;"><i><u><a href="https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/land-acknowledgments" id="OWA09b5bbb3-9c75-5787-ca0b-6fb205c1f136" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/land-acknowledgments" originalsrc="https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/land-acknowledgments" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Learn
about land acknowledgements</a></u></i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: white;"><i>. </i></span></p>
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