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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Hi, Library Directors,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">This is just a friendly reminder to please report any intellectual freedom challenges and issues experienced at your
library since the last time you reported any. :-) I believe that the last reminder went out in July 2017.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/Pages/projects/OIFC/Report.aspx"><span style="color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/Pages/projects/OIFC/Report.aspx</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">As a review, the <a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/Pages/projects/OIFC/index.aspx"><span style="color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse</span></a> (OIFC) collects reports on all types of intellectual freedom incidents at academic, school, and public libraries and institutions. In the past, the OIFC only collected reports about materials challenges. The expanded scope reflects the changes that the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom made to the <a href="http://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/report"><span style="color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">ALA challenge report form</span></a> in January 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">The OIFC report form is very similar to the ALA form. We compile the reports that we receive from Oregon library staff into an annual report on intellectual freedom issues that we submit to ALA. The OIFC will not publish identifying information.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">We collect reports on the following intellectual freedom issues:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Materials challenges (books, movies, music, magazines)<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Hate crime (defacement of library/institution property to target a specific group; use of swastikas or other symbols of intimidation, harassment or assault on library property)<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">You can fill out an <a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/Pages/projects/OIFC/Report.aspx"><span style="color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">online form or a PDF version</span></a>. If you choose the PDF version, please send it Ferol Weyand:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Mail => Ferol Weyand, State Library of Oregon, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Please let Ferol or me know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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