<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Hello Everyone,</p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Season 4, Episode 3 of the OVERDUE: Weeding Out Oppression in Libraries podcast is LIVE!</b></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Listen Here: </b><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1948067/episodes/17434236">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1948067/episodes/17434236</a></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">I am oh so incredibly excited to share this episode featuring Kaetrena Davis Kendrick—an award-winning librarian, researcher, and the 2024–2025 Follett Chair at Dominican University. Kendrick, renowned for her groundbreaking research on the topic of low-morale in libraries, peels back the layers to reveal the systemic systems and structures that enable toxic library workplaces—providing listeners with the tools to identify, adapt to, and heal from these environments, plus more!</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Hosts: </b>LaRee Dominguez & Brittany Young</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Date of recording: </b>May 29, 2025</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Direct link to this episode: </b><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1948067/episodes/17434236">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1948067/episodes/17434236</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Coaching & Facilitation: </b><a href="https://renewalslis.com">https://renewalslis.com</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Website: </b><a href="https://kaetrenadaviskendrick.wordpress.com">https://kaetrenadaviskendrick.wordpress.com</a> </p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Shout out to our episode hosts, LaRee Dominguez & Brittany Young, as well as audio editor Gene Iparraguirre. Thank you to OLA Association Manager, Shirley, for your help with logistics, to the Oregon Library Association and the State Library of Oregon for your continued support of this project and, as always, to the rest of the members of the OLA EDI & Antiracism Committee.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Mahalo, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">          Roxanne</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Roxanne M. Renteria</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">OLA EDI & Anti-Racism Committee, Co-Chair</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Serving Alongside LaRee Dominguez</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">2023-2025</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">---------------------------------------------</p></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">OLA EDI Antiracism Committee</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><img width="200" height="72" style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4yRlBxK2T5ZuK8qdHz72Wl0bcR_Cv-ZWzMWLYvKRskJknVfwsNYrWNrNnQb2WNzLYjiOVAADM8"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(32,33,36)"><a href="https://www.olaweb.org/ola-edi-antiracism-committee---HOME" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font face="times new roman, serif">EDIA Committee Webpage</font></a></div><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font face="times new roman, serif"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1948067" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">EDIA </a><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1948067" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">OVERDUE Podcast</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>