<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Hi there!</span><div dir="ltr"><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 23.25px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I sit on a committee that includes librarians from AASL, ALSC (Association for Library Services for Children), and YALSA (Young Adult Library Service Association).</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 23.25px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;">This year’s </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;">AASL/ALSC/YALSA School/Public Library Cooperation Committee is charged with developing </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;">strategies for youth services libraries (that’s us!) to work together in the face of the current climate of book challenges as well as creating useful resources to support this work. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;">As groups promoting censorship spread misinformation about both the materials in our libraries and (often) our intentions in offering them, it behooves us to unite in developing and sharing with our entire communities factual information on the policies and processes by which we develop our collections as well as how we handle requests for reconsideration of those materials.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 23.25px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">We’re working to create a toolkit that will include these resources, and we need your help. We’re hoping to compile Selection and Reconsideration Policies from all over the country, and any articles, handouts, talking points, or toolkits you’ve found to be helpful. We have two Google Forms set up to collect the resources: </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 23.25px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This one, for the selection and reconsideration policies: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelOe27y6C-cQgHOdWrTPw9Zn-e8CDW81fEbLmw6gDH6hqNEw/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelOe27y6C-cQgHOdWrTPw9Zn-e8CDW81fEbLmw6gDH6hqNEw/viewform</a></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 23.25px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">And this one, for all other resources: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfno7vbwsSj7Cgz5AGefV4Q1J7I00Qu3jf4xRfLFOif9lPnkw/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfno7vbwsSj7Cgz5AGefV4Q1J7I00Qu3jf4xRfLFOif9lPnkw/viewform</a></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 23.25px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 23.25px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">And as always, if you need anything, or even just need to talk about intellectual freedom stuff, my door is always open! </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 23.25px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Kristina Weber</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; line-height: 23.25px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Intellectual Freedom Chair, AISLE</p><div style="display: block;" class=""><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://sites.google.com/aisled.org/intellectual-freedom/?pli=1"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:228px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://sites.google.com/aisled.org/intellectual-freedom/?pli=1" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="228"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:228px;background-color:#E9E9EB;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="228"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:228px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:238px;" width="228" height="238" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="4bibi3MGXd0eY0SgxTIkEbbKHie7gttNHHzxQB4VCjsTetoaXD5jAk6KI6-CvdkzRR490Oz99Uh_oMH6bGj-GM4=w16383.png" src="cid:351600CE-6D98-40DB-9637-B48B47DB5343"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E9E9EB" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="228" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(233, 233, 235, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://sites.google.com/aisled.org/intellectual-freedom/?pli=1" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#000000" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);">Intellectual Freedom Resource Center</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://sites.google.com/aisled.org/intellectual-freedom/?pli=1" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#A2A2A9" style="color: rgba(60, 60, 67, 0.6);">sites.google.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>