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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Good morning, I was asked this year to serve as a contributor to the Intellectual Freedom Blog for the American Library Association. As my community of peers I thought
I would share my recent posts; and also take the opportunity to ask you to share any issues surrounding intellectual freedom, free speech, book challenges or anything else of concern. As Oklahoman librarians we are in unique and important position to help
shape the debates that are upon us. The ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom’s Facebook page can be found:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ALAOIF/">https://www.facebook.com/ALAOIF/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:22.5pt"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424347"><a href="http://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=8591"><span style="color:#16A1E7;text-decoration:none">Neither App nor Algorithm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#767676">The role of libraries in preserving intellectual freedom, as well as the integrity of our collections and interactions
we have with patrons, is based on critical thinking and clear-eyed reasoning, not the convenience of a hyperlink.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:22.5pt"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424347"><a href="http://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=8552"><span style="color:#16A1E7;text-decoration:none">News Literacy in the
Library Classroom</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#767676">The Columbia Journalism Review recently discussed how the news media could learn a lot from librarians and the framework,
and set of principles, we’ve developed for dealing with the onslaught of digital information. But the truth is that in a culture devoted to the free flow of information and free expression, we learn best when we learn from each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:22.5pt"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424347"><a href="http://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=8470"><span style="color:#16A1E7;text-decoration:none">Censure & Erasure:
The Strange Case of Hans Fallada</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#767676">As adherents and defenders of the idea of intellectual freedom, librarians — both public and academic — are in a position
of strength to shape the debates roiling through our communities … This is not about liberal or conservative; this is about demagoguery taking root. The strange case of Hans Fallada need not be repeated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Frederic Murray, MLIS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Southwestern Oklahoma State University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Contributor: Intellectual Freedom Blog 2017
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><a href="http://www.oif.ala.org/oif/"><span style="color:blue">The Office for Intellectual Freedom: American Library Association</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><a href="http://www.swosu.edu/academics/aij/index.aspx"><span style="color:blue">Administrative Issues Journal</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><a href="http://davinciok.org/"><span style="color:blue">DaVinci Institute: Oklahoma’s Creativity Think-Tank</span></a>
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