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This is just a reminder to report challenges by the end of the month. Details below.</div>
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<b>From:</b> OTTUM Tamara * SLO <Tamara.OTTUM@slo.oregon.gov><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 30, 2025 3:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Post to Libs-Or (libs-or@omls.oregon.gov) <libs-or@omls.oregon.gov>; Academic Library Directors announcement list (al-directors@omls.oregon.gov) <al-directors@omls.oregon.gov>; Public Library Directors announcement list (pl-directors@omls.oregon.gov)
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<b>Subject:</b> Report intellectual freedom challenges by 7/31 </div>
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Have there been intellectual freedom challenges at your library, college, or school? The State Library encourages you to report them to us!</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr;"><b>What to report</b>: Challenges to materials, programs, policies, and services. We’re currently collecting reports of incidents that occurred between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr;"><b>How to report: </b>Complete a
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form</a> for each incident by July 31. Reports are confidential unless you tell us otherwise. You can choose to include your name and email if you would like to be contacted for support.</div>
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<div role="presentation" style="direction: ltr;"><b>Why report</b>: We use your reports to compile an
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annual report</a> that summarizes challenges in our state. We also report data to the
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ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom</a>.</div>
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Unsure about whether something rises to the level of being worth reporting? Report it anyway. The more information we have, the better picture we can paint about the intellectual freedom landscape in Oregon.</div>
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Questions? Contact me!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>Tamara Ottum (she/her)</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; line-height: 13.8px;">State Library of Oregon</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); line-height: 13.8px;"><u><a href="mailto:tamara.ottum@slo.oregon.gov" id="OWAc9bde814-b204-7141-9b71-fe30a4b73f4c" class="OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="0" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin: 0px;">tamara.ottum@slo.oregon.gov</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; line-height: 13.8px;">971-375-3543</span></p>
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