<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span class="gmail_default"></span>Dear fellow #FReadom lovers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">With my fellow high school librarians Amy Wiggins and Melissa Aubin, I wanted to share a positive outcome we had regarding our <a href="https://www.d128.org/vhhs/students/student-services/library/library-media-center-materials-selection">district's procedures for the reconsideration of library materials</a>. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">And, even more so, encourage you to ask for the same!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">After attending several intellectual freedom sessions (including one featuring Kristina Weber and ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom) at #AISLEd22, we proposed several edits to our recently updated procedures and forms. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Following attorney review, the district agreed to 3 important edits:</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><ul style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><li>reconsideration forms will only be accepted from residents of our school district</li><li>reconsideration form repeatedly emphasizes that the person making the challenge has read/watched the work in its entirety; the required signature again confirms that the entirety of the work has been read</li><li>reconsideration forms WILL NOT be accepted if the "complaint would require the district to engage in unlawful discrimination based on (variety of social factors) ..."</li></ul><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This last point is huge:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">>> if the person making the complaint targets books solely because they contain queer or anti-racist content, we will not accept the complaint. </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To do so would violate our district's own equity, diversity, and inclusion policies.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I wish you all of the best as you stand up for your students' freedom to read!</span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zK7g5DO-upyaTPhftpxos_nj1fvC3QzzIOMu36XBkCZwKGa3KMm2oQ46tXBjuOCkXzIyc2WuA"><div>📚 Currently reading <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60321061-we-are-the-light" target="_blank">We Are the Light</a></i> by Matthew Quick</div><div>🐦 Also reading<i> <a href="https://search.follettsoftware.com/metasearch/rest/v2/go/5999/details/107388" target="_blank">Where Have All the Birds Gone?</a> </i>by Rebecca E. Hirsch</div><div>🎧 Currently listening to <i><a href="https://search.follettsoftware.com/metasearch/rest/v2/go/5999/details/108444" target="_blank">Solito</a> </i>by Javier Zamora</div><div>⭐ Member of 2024 Lincoln Award Selection Committee, helping to choose the 20 books nominated for the Illinois Teen Choice Award; <a href="https://www.d128.org/vhhs/students/student-services/library/2023-illinois-teen-choice-award" target="_blank">here is the 2023 list</a><br><div><div><table cellpadding="0" style="width:482px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px"><tbody><tr><td style="width:478px"><br style="letter-spacing:0.2px"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 7:55 PM Intellectual Freedom AISLE via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Hi there!</span><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:none;line-height:23.25px;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="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:none;line-height:23.25px;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="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:none;line-height:23.25px;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="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:none;line-height:23.25px;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" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelOe27y6C-cQgHOdWrTPw9Zn-e8CDW81fEbLmw6gDH6hqNEw/viewform</a></p><p style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:none;line-height:23.25px;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" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfno7vbwsSj7Cgz5AGefV4Q1J7I00Qu3jf4xRfLFOif9lPnkw/viewform</a></p><p style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:none;line-height:23.25px;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="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:none;line-height:23.25px;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="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:none;line-height:23.25px;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Kristina Weber</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:none;line-height:23.25px;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"><div style="display:inline-block" role="link"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;display:block;width:228px;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none" rel="nofollow" href="https://sites.google.com/aisled.org/intellectual-freedom/?pli=1" dir="ltr" role="button" width="228" target="_blank"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:228px;background-color:rgb(233,233,235);font-family:-apple-system,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="228"><tbody><tr><td align="center"><img style="width: 228px; height: 238px;" width="228" height="238" alt="4bibi3MGXd0eY0SgxTIkEbbKHie7gttNHHzxQB4VCjsTetoaXD5jAk6KI6-CvdkzRR490Oz99Uh_oMH6bGj-GM4=w16383.png" src="cid:186562e69886a66b1751"></td></tr><tr><td><table bgcolor="#E9E9EB" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="228" style="font-family:-apple-system,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgb(233,233,235)"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px;overflow:hidden"><div style="font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://sites.google.com/aisled.org/intellectual-freedom/?pli=1" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Intellectual Freedom Resource Center</font></a></div><div style="font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://sites.google.com/aisled.org/intellectual-freedom/?pli=1" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><font color="#A2A2A9" style="color:rgba(60,60,67,0.6)">sites.google.com</font></a></div></d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