[Libs-Or] Correction to the 2020 ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence Winners

[Marci Jenkins]

Thank you Candise for the updated announcement and thanks all ACRL-Oregon for this great honor!

I would like to congratulate our colleagues Laurie Bridges, Diana Park and Tiah Edmunson-Morton for the outstanding project as well! Such an honor to be recognized along with them on an effort of this magnitude!

Thanks again ACRL-OR for this award, it means a lot for all of us involved in Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Antiracism initiatives to be cherished and acknowledged for our efforts. Thanks Elaine Hirsh and all OLA Board for opening this door and embracing this cause!

Marci Ramiro-Jenkins
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Oregon Library Association EDI Anti-Racism Committee Chair
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From: Libs-Or [mailto:libs-or-bounces at omls.oregon.gov] On Behalf Of Candise Branum
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 4:06 PM
Subject: [Libs-Or] Correction to the 2020 ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence Winners


This message originated outside of the City of McMinnville.

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Our previous announcement left out a person who was an active member of the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion/Anti-Racism Task Force, Max Macias from Portland Community College. We apologize for this error, and want to make sure each person involved in the award winning projects are honored for their contributions (as well as their unpaid labor). It was not our intention to deprive a colleague of this distinguished honor, so please accept our apologies and extend your congratulations to Max for his role in making this project come to fruition.


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UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT:


The ACRL-Oregon Board is proud to award this year's ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence to two excellent projects: Writing (Pacific Northwest) African American History into Wikipedia and the OLA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion/Anti-Racism Task Force. The ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence is given to recognize a project that demonstrates excellence in the field by significantly improving Oregon academic libraries or librarianship. The Award for Excellence Committee uses a rubric to judge the projects, and both winning projects received exactly the same excellent score.


We are thrilled to recognize two projects that represent efforts to center BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) history in our region and the needs of BIPOC workers in our profession:


The Writing (Pacific Northwest) African American History into Wikipedia team recognized an information gap within Wikipedia related to African American history, especially for the Pacific Northwest. Librarians at Oregon State University organized Wikipedia Editathons<https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/editathons2020> to make this history more visible. As a result, they have not only increased access to information about Pacific Northwest African American history, but they have also trained new editors who can continue this work. They have held two Editathons and have had participation from students enrolled in OSU courses as well as community members. Overall the Editathons demonstrate a commitment to social justice by addressing Wikipedia’s well-documented racial bias and offer a valuable model for librarians and archivists to enact change. OSU Librarian Laurie Bridges led this effort along with a team that included OSU librarians Diana Park and Tiah Edmunson-Morton. This project was also written about in an OLA Quarterly article<https://doi.org/10.7710/1093-7374.1987> as part of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion issue in Fall 2019.


The OLA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion/Anti-Racism Task Force was charged by the Oregon Library Association Board in Fall 2019 with developing an EDI plan for the organization. The Task Force, which focused on anti-racism as its primary focus, presented its recommendations<https://www.olaweb.org/assets/BoardMeetings/2019-20/2020_04/OLA%20Equity%2C%20Diversity%2C%20and%20Inclusion%20Task%20Force%20Recommendations%20%281%29.pdf> in Spring 2020 which were adopted by the OLA Board and have influenced the planning of the Oregon Association of School Librarians as well as the ACRL-Oregon. According to Task Force Co-Chair, Marci Ramiro-Jenkins of the McMinnville Public Library, “this project will help with the implementation of anti-racist best practices, will promote education and guidance for librarians and library staff in regards to EDI and anti-racism best practices, will advocate for support for librarians of color when it comes to emotional labor, microaggression and racial battle fatigue, and will improve the retention of  library staff and patrons from underrepresented groups.” Ramiro-Jenkins shares this award with co-Chair Martín Blasco of Washington County Cooperative Library Services, Meredith Farkas of Portland Community College Library (who serves on the award committee and recused herself from the voting), Ayn Frazee of Portland Public Schools, Danielle Jones of Multnomah County Library, Max Macias of Portland Community College, Lisa Taylor of Happy Valley Library, and Alisa Williams of Multnomah County Library.


Both project leads will receive a plaque commemorating the award and will be recognized at the OLA Annual Conference’s awards ceremony.


ACRL-OR Award for Excellence Committee

Arlene Weible

Candise Branum

Katherine Donaldson

Meredith Farkas



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