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He is a former partner in AssociaDirect, a Chicago-based consultancy focused on supporting associations in membership recruitment, conference, and governance activities. He is a former President and member of the Board of Trustees for the Berwyn (Ill.) Public Library (2006–2015) and is a former President of the Reaching Across Illinois Libraries System (RAILS) multi-type library system.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIntended Audience\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eState library and/or archives agency\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublic library\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAcademic library: 4 year and graduate\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAcademic library: 2 year\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2025-01-15"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eJoin John Chrastka, Executive Director of EveryLibrary, for a look at current Congressional and state legislative priorities, both positive and negative, for public and academic libraries.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLearning Outcomes\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBy the end of this class, students will be able to:\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eList current Congressional priorities for public and academic libraries\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eList current state legislative priorities for public and academic libraries\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eInstructor\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Chrastka is the Founder and Executive Director of EveryLibrary, the national political action committee (PAC) for libraries. He is a former partner in AssociaDirect, a Chicago-based consultancy focused on supporting associations in membership recruitment, conference, and governance activities. He is a former President and member of the Board of Trustees for the Berwyn (Ill.) Public Library (2006\u0026ndash;2015) and is a former President of the Reaching Across Illinois Libraries System (RAILS) multi-type library system.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIntended Audience\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eState library and/or archives agency\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublic library\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAcademic library: 4 year and graduate\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAcademic library: 2 year\u003c/p\u003e"]},"provider":[{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["LYRASIS"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["LYRASIS"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/166/original/LYRASIS_Learning.png?1631557479","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/260/533/small/GMT20250115-190055_Recording_1760x900.mp4_1737557077.jpg?1737557079","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - GMT20250115-190055_Recording_1760x900.mp4"]},"duration":3567.16,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/260/533/small/GMT20250115-190055_Recording_1760x900.mp4_1737557077.jpg?1737557079","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-lyrasis.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/260/533/original/GMT20250115-190055_Recording_1760x900.mp4?1737557075","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":3567.16,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Transcript [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, sorry, one second. Going to go back.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=0.0,3.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hi, everyone. Thank you for attending today's Lyricist Learning webinar, the 2025-2026 legislative landscape.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3.0,12.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My name is Sam Eddington. I am the program leader for Larisys Learning. Really excited to have you all here today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=12.0,18.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Those of you who came a little bit early, I was really excited. I was expressing my excitement about learning So more about this topic. A couple things before we start.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=18.0,28.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The presentation is being recorded. You will receive an email probably tomorrow that will contain a link to the recording. It will contain uh the slides and it will contain a link to an evaluation survey If you fill out that evaluation survey, which I would really encourage you to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=28.0,46.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You will receive at the end of the month a certificate of participation slash attendance, which you can use if you have any professional development needs that require it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=46.0,57.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We are fortunate to have Shania with us, who is wonderful and is doing tech support.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=57.0,64.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you experience any technical difficulties at all. Please either send her a direct message there in the chat or call her at the telephone number she's provided and she will do her absolute best to get you back up and running as quickly as possible.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=64.0,78.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We are going to have a fair amount of time for question and answer on this particular webinar. So if you have questions, please go ahead and stick them in the chat at any point and we will go through them when we go through them when","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=78.0,94.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Conclude the presentation part of the presentation. But today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=94.0,100.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think that's it. So I will go ahead and introduce our presenter for the two people in the library world to are not familiar with him. We are really fortunate to have with us today John Kraska, the founder and executive director of Every Library, the National Political Action Committee for Libraries.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=100.0,117.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He's a former partner in associate direct a chicago-based consultancy focused on supporting associations in membership recruitment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=117.0,125.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Conference and governance activities. He's also the former president and member of the Board of Trustees for the Berwyn, Illinois Public Library and a former president of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System multi-type library system","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=125.0,145.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sam, you were very kind for the invitation and the introduction. Hi, folks. I'm John. Every library has two parts to our work. Every library is a 501c4 national political action committee for libraries.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=145.0,157.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We work on local library ballot measures. We work on supporting state library associations, state library stakeholder agendas in their legislatures.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=157.0,166.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We do some work around congressional activity, though that's been A little less frequent previously, but I have a feeling that as we move into the next couple of weeks in the first 100 days, it's going to pick up a bit. The work that we do at every library on the political side is all pro bono and for free. We work with","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=166.0,185.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Groups, including school libraries, by the way, we do a tremendous amount with our Save School Librarians initiatives.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=185.0,191.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"On the school library side. The work that we do on consulting, guiding, coaching, training, supporting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=191.0,197.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Collaborating is all pro bono and for free And we're a donor supported organization to do that kind of work in that political space for libraries and librarianship.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=197.0,206.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Our other part of our work is our 501c3. It's a traditional nonprofit, but it's not an association. It's a public policy, tax policy education policy think tank for libraries.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=206.0,218.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We work in that space around the discussions of matters of law, local ordinances, how do you build policy, all the way up to how do you write good, smart laws that protect the right to read, the institutions of libraries, the workforce.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=218.0,232.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And how do you do… smart engagements with bad bills as well because Advocacy is not just about getting loud for libraries. It sometimes is having very targeted, thoughtful, strategic conversations with the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Wyoming.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=232.0,251.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For that matter. The work again that we do on that space is sometimes grant funded, largely donor funded.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=251.0,257.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we partner with a lot of state library associations and different right to read groups on these issues. Across both organizations.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=257.0,265.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We work on anti-censorship and anti-discrimination through our fight for the first platform and um support nine different statewide right to read groups including Florida Freedom Read, Texas Freedom to Read, Read Freely, Alabama the right to read Arkansas, Right to Read North Dakota, which is just launching.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=265.0,284.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we talked to the American public every day. We have about 450,000 people in our mailing list and over 550,000 people on social who want to hear about the good things that librarians do across public, academic, and school settings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=284.0,298.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The occasional law, library story, correctional libraries. I mean, these are people who care. They might or might not be readers, but they care.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=298.0,306.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And they want to hear about the work that you all do in these different settings. And they also want to be able to respond when there's a problem or a crisis.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=306.0,312.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I'm glad that we're in a position to help support both at the zip code level, the school district level, the individual campus level.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=312.0,319.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"With our state partners and once in a while God bless America in Congress, these big issues.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=319.0,325.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sam in the community at Lyricist has invited me today to talk a little bit about what's going on in DC and in the States.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=325.0,332.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Today is a few days before. President-elect Trump's second inauguration. We're a few days into the current Congress. And as I mentioned a moment ago, we're going to be kicking off the first 100 days and other executive orders that will be coming out of the Trump administration.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=332.0,348.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Folks, we're five days before the inauguration, and I have some ideas, but I don't have a crystal ball.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=348.0,354.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We all read the news in one way, shape, or form.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=354.0,357.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And what I want to do is talk about how to anticipate And potentially how to react in DC. The library landscape in Washington, DC right now is rapidly… and dramatically changing with the new Congress and the new administration.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=357.0,371.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The thing about the new Congress that we have to remember, though, when we're talking about change is that many of the members of Congress are the same folks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=371.0,379.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They're folks that should have already become aware of what library issues are and are not remote to you in many places, whether it's representatives or senators.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=379.0,389.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But there's a framework going into this next Congress, this new administration.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=389.0,394.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Around Project 2025 and Agenda 47. Project 2025 and Agenda 47, which are in different ways blueprints for how the new administration wants to work and how the next Congress is being called on by that administration to legislate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=394.0,409.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There are some very key elements in Project 2025. Which was developed by the Heritage Foundation and 30 other more Right of center, fairly… Compared to the Brookings Institution, much more on the Cato side, but it's American Enterprise Institute.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=409.0,430.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It is the Koch brothers funded organizations The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 has called for several different things around libraries.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=430.0,441.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it bears some scrutiny because a lot of the project initiatives in the project 2017, and it didn't get as much hype back in 2017, but the frameworks that the Heritage Foundation brought forward were adopted fairly significantly by the first Trump administration and were advanced by certain members of Congress. I mean.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=441.0,465.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You go back far enough in the call to defund the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, IMLS It goes back to when Paul Ryan, before he was Speaker of the House, was chair of the House Appropriations Committee.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=465.0,479.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In the zeros. There's a framework within Project 2025 that is looking to shrink government.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=479.0,486.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that IMLS defunding, the closure of IMLS has been called for time and time again by the authors of Project 2025.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=486.0,495.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's material, of course, to state libraries. It's material to public libraries who receive some sort of disbursement on grants and aid, but really the State Library backbone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=495.0,505.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The issues around that are yet to be seen. And if we skip down a couple of bullet points here, IMLS right now is up for reauthorization.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=505.0,517.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There's a regular five-year cycle in Congress. The fact that that is coming up right now is interesting because… How do you do a reauthorization in a climate that is potentially calling for the closure or elimination of that federal agency. Now, this is not","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=517.0,534.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Alone. This is not a strict library problem. Project 2025 is calling for the end of things like the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts. They don't want PBS. They're going after Big Bird.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=534.0,547.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And those fights are going to be significant fights. And with the particular vulnerability that IMLS has right now, being up for reauthorization, it also lacks a permanent director.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=547.0,560.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Every five years, the director changes according to statute. Crosby Kemper, who's gone off his term almost a year ago now, and the very able team at IMLS who are interim right now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=560.0,574.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But there's going to be a According to how things are supposed to work, there's supposed to be a museums person coming in for the next cycle.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=574.0,582.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Not having current authorization and not having a current director means that things are very vulnerable and the funding call in Project 2025 or in the Heritage Foundation blueprints over the years to defund means that we've got to pay a lot of attention.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=582.0,597.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And again, it's not the only thing. Nea, NEH, National Archives.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=597.0,602.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"National Archives is already under attack. President-elect Trump, I don't know how to say it properly in the protocol. He's president-elect, but he's been president. So you call him President Trump, even though he's not in office. President Trump has been going after","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=602.0,617.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The current head of the National Archives because of his displeasure with how National Archives prior to Dr. Shogun's administration, mind you, behaved around the classified documents issues following his first administration.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=617.0,632.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We are in a very uncertain time for the infrastructure that funds At a federal level.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=632.0,640.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Museums, archives, and libraries. And it's not just Project 2025. It's Agenda 47. You might know the numbering for presidents. This will be Trump's second presidency will be the 47th president.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=640.0,655.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And his own platform talks about these kind of key issues. Other key issues include closing the Department of Education.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=655.0,663.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Which is the final bullet point here on this slide, and some severe attacks on the structure of how higher education works as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=663.0,672.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let me highlight a few of the things happening in DC before I get into that more specifically. Arpa funding, which is the federal relief funding coming out of COVID for municipalities and states, and ESSER, which is the emergency relief funding for education for K-12 education is either ended","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=672.0,691.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In the case of ESSER or ending very soon in the case of ARPA money. That is a federal issue because there are gaps in local budgets that traditionally might be called on to Congress to fill.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=691.0,706.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And in this next administration, which is really focused on government efficiencies or shrinking government.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=706.0,714.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's going to remain to be seen what happens, especially when they're looking to use the budget reconciliation process.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=714.0,721.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"To eliminate different programs, different departments of the federal government as well. I haven't seen a draft. If you have, please forward it to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=721.0,731.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm very interested in. And I've also heard Speaker Johnson talk about eliminating up to 99 different federal departments.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=731.0,740.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The funding that goes along with that is then, of course, either in peril, at risk, or disappears.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=740.0,747.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dea, Digital Equity Act, and BEAD, have some uncertainties to them now coming forward, largely because of several members of Congress looking to claw back funding.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=747.0,757.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oftentimes it's for that word equity. The Digital Equity Act is intended to provide resources to community anchor institutions, including libraries.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=757.0,766.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"To help train, coach, and guide people through utilizing the tools that are coming from the broadband equity and Access Deployment Fund, which is BEAD, which is like laying fiber optic cable and building satellite uplinks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=766.0,779.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm bringing this up because we've been working as a sector on equity for an awfully long time. And equity around digital, equity of access around digital, access points, the teaching of it. If some of those funding structures are diminished or disappear","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=779.0,797.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It will affect the way that people from all different walks of life can start to receive good services from their local libraries around how to adopt and adapt to these emerging technologies.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=797.0,811.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Speaking of technology, E-rate and the Universal Services Fund is going to be in this next Congress under some scrutiny, and it is currently in the courts about a fundamental question as to whether or not it's constitutional.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=811.0,824.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"On the public library side, I don't know if your library has E-rate funding or utilizes different parts of the Universal Service Fund.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=824.0,833.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But if you're supplementally bringing in technology or switches or fiber to the library, we have to be paying attention to those spaces as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=833.0,843.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mentioned IMLS. I mentioned the threats to close the DOE, and then the Higher Education Act reauthorization, folks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=843.0,849.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For our academic library colleagues here today, the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act is I think, a decade overdue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=849.0,858.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it doesn't mean that there's going to be anything changing until it gets reauthorized, but a conversation around how do we structure higher education in this country Happening with this next administration in Congress through a lens of Project 2025 and other conversations amongst those stakeholder groups about","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=858.0,877.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Really moving much more towards individual credentialing of work experience and away from work experience in a way the frameworks how universities and colleges are both accredited to do their work, but also provide terminal degrees to do their work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=877.0,897.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"To do work. There's real potential for some very fundamental shifts And how higher education is done in this country and the future of academic libraries is tied in extremely to the future of your institutions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=897.0,912.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All right, let me go through some top level stuff that's happening in the States right now. Again, if you want to put stuff in the chat, and it's not all questions, it's comments, it's concerns, it's observations.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=912.0,922.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It would be very good to be able to hear what you all are all thinking about, what you're observing and seeing out there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=922.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I want to get as much intelligence going together collectively as a community as we can.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=930.0,936.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But in the states specifically. The state specifically, in 2024, which was the second half for Almost all states, the second half of a two-year legislative cycle. 2023 saw some real big shenanigans on the part of folks who were looking to attack libraries in some very pernicious bills that were going after the rights of readers","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=936.0,957.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The dignity of readers, the structure of libraries. But 2024 saw a tremendous wave of negative bills that were introduced in almost 30 states.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=957.0,968.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now, through very good advocacy work, very strident engagement. And through a little bit of luck and grace, all but eight of those bills were defeated.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=968.0,981.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The vetoes that were in place also in 2024 were very important.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=981.0,986.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As well. Now, we have a very long discussion of these negative bills as well as the 70 positive bills that were introduced last session.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=986.0,997.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where 11 positive bills were enacted, 59 were withdrawn or died, and some lame duck action happened as well. We have a very long discussion.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=997.0,1006.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of them, including analyses of the language of the bills, both the negative bills and the positive bills.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1006.0,1012.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Categorization of those bills, which I'll get into in a moment. The frameworks around some of the advocacy campaigns on two different reports that we've issued.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1012.0,1022.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For 2023 and 2024 on everylibrary.org. There's legislation of concern from 2023 And then winds and warnings for 2024.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1022.0,1036.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The interesting thing here is that as we move into the beginning of 2025, They are keeping pace.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1036.0,1043.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"With 2024 and the ratio of negative to positive seems to be holding.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1043.0,1049.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In 2025 in the States, we are, well, in 2023, 2024, we had eight kinds of negative legislation that we were looking at, legislation that had issues for libraries and librarianship and for readers as well. Now it's 10.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1049.0,1065.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In 2025, we're looking at a number of states that are introducing bills that would criminalize libraries and education in K-12, sometimes higher ed as well, certainly museums are in there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1065.0,1076.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"By removing longstanding what's called defense from prosecution exemptions under state obscenity laws.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1076.0,1084.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Or they're introducing civil penalties to librarians personally or boards of education library boards as well over books that citizens would feel, residents would feel are obscene or harmful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1084.0,1100.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The criminalization of the profession is something that's a core issue for us at every library. We're going to go to the mat on every one of those fights if we are able to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1100.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Work with our partners at the states because the last thing we need is a framework in which a local police officer or sheriff deputy or a local DA or prosecutor can allege that the librarian for having a book on their shelf","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1110.0,1126.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Whether it's in a public library or school library, sometimes in university or college setting, when they go after museums, it means that the statue of David would be eligible for this when they go after K-12 education for criminalization, it means that the health teachers","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1126.0,1145.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The science teachers the counselors Art.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1145.0,1150.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean, folks, this is a fundamental shift by removing the defense from prosecution exemption for these bonafide professions and these bonafide institutions. It goes back to the Kennedy administration.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1150.0,1161.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it's about obscenity and harmful to minors laws. The premise of American society up until very, very recently, last two, three, four years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1161.0,1171.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Is that there's not pornography in libraries in K-12. That art is art in that adults need to be able to access stuff that isn't maybe necessarily relevant for children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1171.0,1187.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But how do we do higher ed? Without some things that might make people uncomfortable.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1187.0,1194.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We are vigilant and we are active. We help defeat 15 of these bills between 2023 and 2024.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1194.0,1203.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And a couple of them got through in the States as well. Arkansas right now has a provision as part of a law that's been invalidated otherwise by the courts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1203.0,1212.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Indiana has… No defense from prosecution for K-12 librarianship.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1212.0,1219.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So the second one, which I'll spend a little less time on, and these I'm going to go through, we can read up some more later, but obscenity and harmful to minors changes. What we're seeing is two things. One is a significant shift In some states, it's being proposed to the core of the Miller test.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1219.0,1235.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Which is the Supreme Court instructions to judges and juries about what is defined as obscene. They're making changes around the states in order to soften the clear lines that the Supreme Court has made. And to make it easier to charge that a book","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1235.0,1255.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Or other materials is obscene. And they're moving these definitions out of the state criminal code into administrative code in a lot of different ways, including the education code. And why is that material for our public library colleagues it's because","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1255.0,1272.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You know, you've got challenge review policies. For our school library colleagues, they've got challenge review policies.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1272.0,1278.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For our higher ed community, there might be challenge review policies, but there's a lot of academic freedom protections Except what do we do about dual enrolled Minors, kids who are in high school, who are going to your college.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1278.0,1291.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Under federal FERPA laws, they receive their own full bevy of rights as if they were in their majority.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1291.0,1300.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And yet there's still 16, 15, 14 years old and subject to these state issues.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1300.0,1308.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm saying these things to give you some insights on what's happening, but also to ask you to not just be vigilant, but to be involved in these conversations.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1308.0,1316.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"From a public policy perspective. Does anyone want to do this Besides special interest groups that are trying to advance a particular politicized agenda.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1316.0,1327.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And speaking of politicized agenda, book rating systems. We've already seen one introduced this session. We saw a bunch introduced last session. And one that was enacted in 2023 has already been invalidated by the courts. It was HB 900.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1327.0,1343.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In Texas, you'd think that would put it all to bed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1343.0,1346.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But book rating systems that are imposed by the state We're not talking about Lexia reading levels and fondness and Pinnell. We're looking at the state imposing viewpoint on books and rating them based on either sexual context, sexual characteristics, other things that make certain people uncomfortable.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1346.0,1364.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We're looking at laws all around the country that mandate restrictive library policies They preempt local control. They prescribe collection development and materials challenges.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1364.0,1376.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We are seeing a lot again of access issues around library databases and school library databases. And again, some of those do intrude on the academic and higher ed side as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1376.0,1390.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Parental control, parental concerns segregating materials.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1390.0,1396.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Limiting and outlawing the teaching of divisive concepts. My academic library friends here today are in the crosshairs on the Teaching Divisive Concepts and the anti-CRT bills that are out there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1396.0,1408.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Florida, of course, has already gone through the courts, their version of it has informed The court tested version of it in Florida has informed other anti-crt and divisive concept bills in places like alabama.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1408.0,1423.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where they are in force and in effect we're seeing in these divisive concept legislation extending to the point of closing entire DEI offices on campus.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1423.0,1439.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The framework around, and I'll get into this again in a moment, but the framework around divisive concepts is I think one of the most awful things that's going on in this country.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1439.0,1449.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we have to figure out for higher ed, how do we continue to serve our students, our scholars, and our researchers in the face of something that is blatantly discriminatory.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1449.0,1461.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Number eight, defunding or closure of libraries and politicization of library boards. For example, the legislation was passed last session in Louisiana that allows parish councils, parish commissions, I should say to um fire members of library boards at will without cause","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1461.0,1478.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That kind of governmental overreach on the part of states Limiting participation in professional library associations, or dropping the accreditation requirements for professional librarians and or It's amazing to me that the states have been as successful as they have in pushing out some National Library Associations.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1478.0,1501.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that is an area that we have to really get ahead of, team.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1501.0,1508.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then, of course, deprofessionalizing librarianship around education requirements, licensing, certification requirements. Folks, this is a long list.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1508.0,1516.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And paying attention is good and getting involved based on your perspectives, both individually as librarians and library workers and library involved.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1516.0,1526.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And in your associations and membership groups, your faculty senates All the different ways that we have to participate in public policy and civil society.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1526.0,1538.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All right. We are very early in the session, about half, just under half of the states started their state sessions last Monday, just under half are starting them this week, either Monday, Tuesday, tomorrow, like Texas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1538.0,1552.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A few others trickle in. Everybody's in session. Except for one or two that are really late. Everybody's in session by Valentine's Day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1552.0,1562.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we're starting to see some of these bad bills coming in already.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1562.0,1566.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it's not all about censorship. Like I said, the SB 283 in Indiana would end property taxes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1566.0,1575.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Folks in public libraries, if you were not able to tax Those of you who are in association libraries or nonprofits is one thing. Those of you who are part of government.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1575.0,1584.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we've already seen this happen in Iowa. Last year in Iowa, they removed the ability for a number of different local property taxes to be raised and collected.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1584.0,1594.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And for public libraries, that means a number of them no longer have access to the 27 cent levy. Now, this Indiana situation is I mean, how do you not… tax to fund the common good. If we're going to have libraries and parks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1594.0,1612.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How we're going to, I mean. The slope here is extraordinarily slippery and it's really greased up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1612.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The other bill in Indiana that was just introduced is HB 1195, which is another attempt by the Indian legislature to allege that there's pornography In K-12 and really go after school libraries, really go after English classes and history and civics and many other things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1620.0,1641.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kentucky just saw last week the introduction of HB 207, which is a situation that is currently in force in Florida, where a school board can ban a book Because someone comes to a school board meeting and starts to read from the book and one member of the board objects to the reading because they are made uncomfortable by the","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1641.0,1666.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The words out of the mouth of that person who's reading the book. And therefore, it's the ultimate heckler's veto.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1666.0,1677.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it's already enforced in one state and it's starting to be copycatted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1677.0,1681.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In New Hampshire, we've seen HB 324 dropped, which is this year's attempt after three or four sessions to criminalize schools and school libraries and over-regulate reading and SB 33, which is fairly similar anti-reader, anti-access legislation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1681.0,1697.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Not all of these impact K-12. I'm sorry, not all of these impact public libraries and academic libraries in equal measure, but I want to say to you that if it was happening in 2024, we're going to be seeing many of the same things happening again in 2025.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1697.0,1709.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Texas right now leads the country on pre-files. That starts tomorrow. The session starts tomorrow. Missouri's got a few already.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1709.0,1719.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And even in places where you wouldn't necessarily think. But Oregon's got a pre-filed book ratings bill. It's SB 212.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1719.0,1729.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Even though book ratings bills were declared unconstitutional very recently in Texas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1729.0,1733.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They're going to give it another run over there. Now, not all the news is bad news. I mentioned before, oh, I'm sorry, there is one more bit of bad news. I apologize. So South Dakota right now is facing a proposal by the current governor who's been nominated to be the Homeland Security Secretary in the next Trump administration.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1733.0,1754.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Her potential last state budget calls for defunding the state library and closing all but a few key elements of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1754.0,1763.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And the bill that would do that, that would enact it, HB 1041 just dropped.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1763.0,1768.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It would instruct the state library the state of the Sorry, let me rephrase. It would require the state of South Dakota to reject federal funding from IMLS for library services.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1768.0,1779.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it would basically wind the whole state library down. It's not all censorship. It's not all divisive concepts. A lot of this is starting to move into the attacks on the structure of government.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1779.0,1792.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And the structure of education. There are positive things out there too. Don't get me wrong.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1792.0,1798.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Connecticut, Massachusetts, Missouri, Virginia all have good things happening right now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1798.0,1804.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In this session with real positive opportunities. And it builds on some of the positive successes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1804.0,1810.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That happened last year and to a certain smaller extent in 2023.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1810.0,1814.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was very proud in 2023 to work with two states, Delaware and Vermont on passing new right to read legislation called the Libraries for All Act, which looks at civil rights protections.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1814.0,1826.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As a component of public library policies. And why do we bring the book in the library in the first place? Connecticut's got a framework coming together. Massachusetts has two bills.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1826.0,1836.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"School library one public library. Missouri has a a um a bill coming actually from a Republican side that would um really get to a good place around viewpoint neutrality.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1836.0,1853.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And in Arkansas, they're about to drop, it's pre-filed right now, but they're about to drop a really smart idea.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1853.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Which is to repeal and replace legislation that had been declared partially unconstitutional. It was HB 81 in 2023.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1860.0,1869.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Went through the courts. The court said it was unconstitutional because it violated First Amendment principles.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1869.0,1874.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So the stakeholders in Arkansas say, well, why don't we get rid of the whole thing?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1874.0,1878.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Two of the sections are unconstitutional out of the five. The other three are very defective.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1878.0,1883.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's repeal it and replace it with a good, solid viewpoint neutral No doctrinal overreach.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1883.0,1892.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Framework for the right to read. All right. A couple more things to talk about in higher ed and a couple more things to talk about in public libraries. We're going to come around in about 12 maybe 12, maybe 10 minutes, Sam.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1892.0,1907.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"To Q\u0026A in the chat, folks. I see things flashing. I haven't looked at them yet.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1907.0,1912.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But we will in a moment. I just want to think about this with the higher ed community and then with the public library community here on the call.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1912.0,1918.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Today, higher ed. Right now, the external issues facing public libraries and K-12 are breaking on your shores and the traditional barriers between the town and the gown, as it were, between the academic freedom frameworks and the intellectual freedom frameworks are breaking down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1918.0,1937.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And the biggest fights in higher ed are really around accreditation and around divisive concepts and anti-CRT, anti-DEI.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1937.0,1947.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It is incumbent upon our higher education community Well, there are many factors at work right now that don't necessarily look like legislation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1947.0,1958.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And the legislative initiatives and the regulatory initiatives like the Higher Education Act and the way that states do higher education.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1958.0,1966.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Need to be understood, engaged with. And in certain places fought back.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1966.0,1972.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The shift from humanities to STEM in rhetorical places in higher ed is is Not a problem, but if it's unregulated and unengaged, it could potentially mean that many of our collections drift away as those programs drift away as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1972.0,1992.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dual enrollment, I mentioned before, what happens when you've got a kid who's a kid in a state where there's a lot of parental control issues and they're coming into your university or college.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=1992.0,2003.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How do we work within the frameworks for higher ed and academic freedom and the frameworks on federal protections for parents that extend then to those enrolled students on these big issues around censorship and harmful to minors.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2003.0,2020.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course, the elimination of DEI programs the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and these accreditation fights all come together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2020.0,2028.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They all come together because the future, as I said before, the future of college and university.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2028.0,2037.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Libraries is tied intimately to the future of the institutions I'm not talking about an MLS program here. I'm talking about the core accreditation standards for higher ed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2037.0,2048.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Whether it's regional accreditation for colleges, colleges and universities, community colleges.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2048.0,2055.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The issues around accreditation cannot be underappreciated because right now accreditation standards in all but one of the regional accrediting bodies for higher ed and all but one of the community college accrediting agencies require the noun library as a component of accreditation standards. We've lost one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2055.0,2078.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"On the higher ed side, Higher Education Commission has moved away beginning in 2025, just earlier, like two weeks ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2078.0,2085.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"From requiring the noun library and instead shifting to requiring resources And we've already seen one university in the United States take advantage of that shift from having library as a core accreditation standard and moving to resources and it's Western Illinois University.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2085.0,2104.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They have been very clear that they're going to be letting go their Pardon me, I hit the wrong button. They've been very clear that they're going to be letting go their library professional library staff at the Western Illinois University Libraries because they're no longer required for accreditation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2104.0,2125.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"On the community college side, one of the bodies, and forgive me, it's the eastern one, the full name escapes me right this second. I apologize.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2125.0,2134.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No longer requires the noun library and we're seeing new community colleges get built without a space for it. They might have some databases.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2134.0,2140.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But where is the employment of librarians? Where is the collection that supports the curriculum independent inquiry research, et cetera?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2140.0,2149.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now, there's other issues that are meta around life on campus, like contract languages, isolation in the library program, tenure closures and budgets.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2149.0,2157.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But the fight around accreditation standards is something that we have to begin to understand and engage in because otherwise the ground is going to shift under us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2157.0,2168.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's these issues around censorship and erasure also that are pushing into the higher education space.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2168.0,2175.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we want to make sure as we're looking at the structure of higher education, that we can in some ways insulate some ways inoculate, in other ways mitigate against these kinds of crises.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2175.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And the biggest one besides accreditation standards is the anti-CRT, anti-teaching of divisive concepts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2190.0,2197.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"On the… on the face of it, closing DEI, offices and stopping the teaching of the teaching What a diversity, equity inclusion stopping the teaching of divisive concepts that they say are divisive concepts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2197.0,2217.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Means that its limits on speech, of course, its limits on research.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2217.0,2222.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's also limits on collections. But you look at the way that the Alabama law is written, the anti-CRT law is written in Alabama. In response to the judge's rulings for higher ed in Florida.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2222.0,2238.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And one of the interesting things, and this ties it all together about accreditation, is that if a program of study requires for its accreditation standards materials that would otherwise be excluded from this anti-DEI framework You have to include it because it's driven by accreditation standards.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2238.0,2259.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Everyone is grappling with this right now. Everyone in those affected states is grappling with it. There are significant issues around how do we look at our vocabulary that are being forced upon us in very 1984 kinds of ways.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2259.0,2274.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So how do we get ahead of it in other states and how do we potentially help walk it back in states that are currently being affected.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2274.0,2282.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There are six actions that if anybody in higher ed wants to get involved with, I can help you think it through and we can help amplify it as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2282.0,2289.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Every library is in the business of helping the local legitimate stakeholder, whether it's at a campus level, state level.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2289.0,2296.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Or with stakeholder groups federally. We have to be able to articulate our own policy frameworks around what should be done.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2296.0,2304.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have to be in a mode to do outreach around those frameworks. And we have to be able to talk across the academic community about the unique role of libraries.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2304.0,2314.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We are in a great position to offer testimony and to be in those conversations. Even filing amicus briefs where it's important and necessary.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2314.0,2325.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And talking about the frameworks of accreditation that will ensure the future of the work that you all want to do every day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2325.0,2335.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There's some great leadership coaching that we can do around this. And Sam and the lyricist team has already hosted a couple of these webinars. I'd encourage you to go back and take a look at the archive. We've got a few more coming up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2335.0,2346.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As the spring moves or winter moves into spring there's a new political reality.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2346.0,2353.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Whether or not it is coming from D.C. With an agenda 47 Project 2025 attached to it, or it's coming from the state houses or the governor's office.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2353.0,2363.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We are in a place now where states that are in a clear field With state policy are going to be affected by these federal conversations as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2363.0,2375.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All right. Sam, I got a couple more slides and then we'll jump into the comments.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2375.0,2379.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For my public library colleagues. We are not… We're not always good, folks, at being in coalition.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2379.0,2389.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All of the state legislative initiatives that are coming after libraries right now, and even the positive ones that we're trying to advance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2389.0,2397.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Impact more than just the libraries and institution. Whether it's a school library or public library or both.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2397.0,2406.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We are meeting, in my professional opinion. Think outside of our boxes. Coalitions that are about public policy, tax policy, and education policy, a structure of government coalition that would oppose something like the end of local taxes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2406.0,2421.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A structure of government conversation that would look at the funding formula for municipalities, folks. It's not all about It's not all about censorship.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2421.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where are we aligned either on a common cause around a common cause an issue like taxes or First Amendment or 14th Amendment civil rights.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2430.0,2443.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where are we aligned on common concerns for populations? Because there's a lot of vulnerabilities out there that you're serving every day in public libraries.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2443.0,2453.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The coalition approach that we need to take to be able to articulate for folks who should care like we do about the particular legislation, it's either needing to be opposed or needing to be advanced.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2453.0,2464.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And to make sure that we're showing up for those broader civil society, civil rights, and civil liberties conversations as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2464.0,2471.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's not just… I mean, there's a lot of different stakeholder groups that care like you do about the places that you're serving The people who work there who and the people you're serving.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2471.0,2485.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Place people We, I think, have an opportunity. And if you want to think this through out loud, I'm available for you, whether it's your own local library, whether you're serving a single zip code or multi-county systems, your state library associations as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2485.0,2502.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And whatever's going on in Congress. There are important conversations to have that will mitigate against problems.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2502.0,2509.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Because some of the censorship attacks are actually about deprofessionalization, as we've discussed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2509.0,2514.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And some of the issues around criminalization actually impact things like the cost of insurance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2514.0,2521.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For your cities, counties, and towns. Almost every one of these censorship attacks is at its core some sort of a discrimination campaign But the structure of government attacks around, well, limited government, sure, reasonable government, sure. But the continuity of government needs to be discussed by people who","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2521.0,2540.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Government every day. And I'd like to suggest that we need to pay a little bit more attention around other parts of the First Amendment than the freedom of speech.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2540.0,2548.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Establishment Clause, freedom of and from religion, will be an emerging issue over the next two or three years. And I'm not exactly sure how it's going to go yet, but we're starting to work with a couple of law clinics, university law clinics, on coming up with some workable policies around that religiosity that drives some of these attacks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2548.0,2569.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it's an ecosystem-wide activity for our public library colleagues, certainly for academic colleagues as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2569.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you're looking for positive legislation, I'm going to do a commercial. We help the Libraries for All Act pass in Vermont and Delaware. We write it, advance it, and pass it. If you're looking for a new conversation on the public library side, this is very germane to the public library side. I don't have a version of this civil rights protections for K-12.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2580.0,2597.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Or higher ed yet. Trying to figure that one out. If anyone wants to do a laboratory with me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2597.0,2603.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But the idea that why do we bring the book in the library in the first place?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2603.0,2607.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How do we bring in those civil rights protections, those public accommodation protections alongside the limited public forum issues of the First Amendment?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2607.0,2616.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How do we make sure that We don't allow books about minority populations, whether it's religious minority race.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2616.0,2624.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ethnicity, gender, sexuality How do we not allow those books to be labeled as obscene or criminal?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2624.0,2630.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We might have to look, we should be looking at a different part of the conversation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2630.0,2636.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The First Amendment is why you keep a book. Why do you bring it in the library in the first place? I'd like to argue that some of it's around the representation and the relevance of the title to those protected classes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2636.0,2647.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Okay, team, I've got a chat that looks like Sam. It's pretty full.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2647.0,2652.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm very interested in what people have been talking about. Like I said, I haven't been looking at it because I've been trying to Get through the old slides here. What's on people's minds? What's on your mind, Sam?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2652.0,2660.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So… other than this is a challenging time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2660.0,2667.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2667.0,2668.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I've got a couple of questions that I'd like to address here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2668.0,2673.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2673.0,2674.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One of them is, are we seeing any ties to these challenges or proposed bills in higher ed also being tied to Title IX changes?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2674.0,2684.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's a very good question. And there is a big Title IX conversation happening in this country, the attacks on the attacks on trans individuals, women's sports.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2684.0,2697.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Other Title IX issues are going to be a they're going to be a significant issue in this Congress and in certain state legislatures.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2697.0,2706.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't believe… professionally that we're going to see it spill directly into collections or to library services because Title IX and Title VI have only been tied closely On the K-12 side.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2706.0,2722.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"To write to read in only one school district that's had a challenge before the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, and that was in Forsyth County, Georgia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2722.0,2733.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"About a year and a half ago. Otherwise, Title IX and Title VI, it was a Title IX and Title VII consent decree. But otherwise, they're not really tied administratively They're tied conceptually. So if we are looking at this from a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2733.0,2751.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Comprehensive approach to Title IX, and also I would suggest Title VI needs to get paid attention to on the education side.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2751.0,2758.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Because it is relevant, I'm sorry, it is germane to this conversation about relevancy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2758.0,2764.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, I think having some involvement in it as an education as part of the broader education conversation is important. But I can't say you're going to see it one to one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2764.0,2774.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Right away.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2774.0,2778.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Somebody else has asked if you could have a copy of these slides for review that will be included in your email that you'll receive tomorrow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2778.0,2786.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yep.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2786.0,2787.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Uh… Okay, so we've got, these are a couple that I think are related.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2787.0,2794.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"These are both from when you were talking about the National Archives and Records Administration.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2794.0,2795.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2795.0,2799.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2799.0,2800.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The first is, has the censorship many human rights groups are seeing around digital collections from NARA stemming from Trump's former presidency?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2800.0,2809.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Or is this by the current director alone? Or is this more systemic?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2809.0,2814.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And then a follow-up is, what can folks in federal positions at Library of Congress or NARA due to resist these censorships and unethical implementation of administration driven laws to come.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2814.0,2828.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm going to take the latter question first, which is that the frameworks around federal employment, civil service protections.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2828.0,2841.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Need to be well understood by individuals who are operating within the structure of their employment and those civil service requirements need to be well understood by individuals who would be otherwise speaking as a member of a voluntary membership organization, an association, etc.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2841.0,2862.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't counsel resistance as much as I counsel awareness and um do hope that individuals who want to have those conversations are doing it within the protections afforded federal employees.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2862.0,2878.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The… Other question, Sam, can you please repeat that? I want to make sure I'm addressing it as it's asked.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2878.0,2886.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Absolutely. Has the censorship many human rights groups are seeing around digital collections from NARA stemming from Trump's former presidency or is this by the current director alone or is this more systemic?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2886.0,2903.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So the… I hesitate to answer this one because I'm not entirely sure what human rights groups are being referred to. And the allegations that there's censorship happening right now I haven't seen statements from our colleagues at COSA and SAA","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2903.0,2926.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"To that effect officially. I know there are always conversations about curatorial decisions, and there are always discussions about How do we implement different collections and special special displays and things like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2926.0,2943.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm a little bit outside of my comfort zone on this particular question, Sam, and would invite the person who put it in to hit me up more directly. I want to make sure I can answer it adequately.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2943.0,2955.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And with the right kind of framework for it. Because what we don't want to do is start fighting within the library archives and museums community with each other When the problems are largely external.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2955.0,2972.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The conversations in the community professionally are one thing. But we tend in our sector to have, it's easier for, let me pick on K-12 for a second.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2972.0,2984.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's easy to go after a database vendor and less easy to go after the governor of your state.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2984.0,2993.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The issues that are happening that are affecting us are affecting us are Yes, there's always a conversation internally, but externally is where the law is being changed. And for government employees and government institutions and publicly funded institutions, we have to really look at where the source is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=2993.0,3017.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3017.0,3018.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you very much, John. Here we are. How do you foresee libraries can protect their mental health and physical safety?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3018.0,3025.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In the wake of projected book bans, political bans, budget cuts, etc.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3025.0,3029.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So mental health, I am… encouraging folks regularly to go talk to two other organizations that do great work on this space. One is the Urban Librarians Unite.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3029.0,3043.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They did a very good IMLS funded program, and I believe they're having another, there's another round of it coming around PTSD informed library management.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3043.0,3054.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's a great project. The other one is the folks over at Library Futures, Alison McCrenna and that team.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3054.0,3061.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They do some of the best trainings and support for libraries.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3061.0,3066.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Largely on the public library side, but they also do academic side on that conversation about individual and group safety.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3066.0,3074.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What we're doing at every library is we're looking particularly at public libraries and bomb threats and acts of terroristic violence or threats of terroristic violence.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3074.0,3085.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we're coming up with a couple of things. One is some contemporaneous anonymized surveys and interviews with library directors.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3085.0,3094.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Who can offer advice about how to how to pardon the library as a target support the staff and the boards and the patrons ahead of time and after.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3094.0,3106.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As well as working with So one of the reasons that we're leaning into the conversations around the Establishment Clause and the freedom of and from religion and the religiosity of all this stuff is that… we're starting to see around the country some of the book ban protests take on a shape that doesn't look dissimilar to","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3106.0,3129.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Religious protests at things like health clinics and abortion clinics a few years ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3129.0,3134.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What does it mean if the library is perhaps If people are hosting a prayer vigil at a public place, that's one thing. If they're If they're doing penance for the obscene books at the library, it might be another.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3134.0,3151.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And yes, there are opportunities, I think, for this industry to come together and think through what it means to have that freedom of religion conversation, of course, supported in the public institution of the freedom from religion conversation strengthen as well because","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3151.0,3172.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The morality of a book band challenger is individual and the utilization of the collection is community wide.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3172.0,3182.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, but going back to the original question, our friends over at the Urban Library's Unite, ULU, And Library Freedom Project are the ones I would really point you to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3182.0,3192.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't pretend that we've got that sort of EQ work over here at every library.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3192.0,3199.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When it comes to work you do have in scope at every library, you've actually got a shout out here in the chat.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3199.0,3206.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3206.0,3207.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"While we were talking about positive things, every library helped save a public library in Mississippi from a city funding withholding due to minority representation books being available And the librarian who posted this was actually involved in that, and I appreciate your help.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3207.0,3216.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mm-hmm. Well, that's very nice to hear. And that's probably Ridgeland, Mississippi. And there's some things on everlibrary.org about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3216.0,3230.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I do want to lift up that staff team and that library friends organization and that board The mayor… was not alone in his approach to say that while he's an elected official who's sworn to follow the Constitution.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3230.0,3246.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He's also a religious man and he follows that first. And his attacks on the LGBTQ community were very pernicious in the way he was holding the library's money hostage.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3246.0,3256.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ridgeland was an early fight, and I'm glad that we were able to help turn that around.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3256.0,3263.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do some big fundraising to help bridge them through the crisis.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3263.0,3266.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And… The other nice thing about Ridgeland is that they articulated the fight very well in their community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3266.0,3274.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And things are, from what I understand. I think it's not that people shrug their shoulders and moved on, that they've had a real reckoning in that community and it's a good thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3274.0,3291.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3291.0,3292.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We also, if we're looking for positive things, have a comment from somebody who's local congressional representative is in support of federal support for broadband internet access Even though the rest of the their politics maybe don't track with that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3292.0,3312.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3312.0,3313.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/309","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that's even some rural conservative congressional representatives such as that are also in support of that. So maybe that's a place where we could we could look for a win.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3313.0,3324.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/310","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Absolutely. And I don't look at this as a I don't look at many of the library issues as being partisan. I look at it as being philosophy of government, philosophy of society.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3324.0,3336.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/311","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you have an elected official who believes that we should have some sort of tax policy to fund some sort of the common good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3336.0,3344.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/312","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that we have elected officials who might want to see limited government.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3344.0,3349.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Who are more looking for a hand up instead of a hand out, we can work with them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3349.0,3354.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/314","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You can absolutely work with them. They care about the same people that you serve.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3354.0,3358.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/315","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Their hometown, their home district, you serve them. I mean, heck for the University folks out there, college and university folks out there, your elected officials have a sweatshirt that says the name of your college on it potentially You know, they're all workable.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3358.0,3376.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Provided they want to see society continue to exist. It's the philosophy of government, folks, the philosophy of government that says that we're going to not just shrink government to efficiency.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3376.0,3388.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/317","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That we're going to somehow or another destroy society in the process that I can't get behind.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3388.0,3396.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/318","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Appreciate that. And we are coming up on our time together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3396.0,3401.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/319","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3401.0,3402.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/320","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So I'd like to know if there's anything that you would like to leave our audience with in What are, I think, objectively challenging times?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3402.0,3413.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, Sam, I appreciate you asking that. I've got one slide that's a commercial for every library. If you are motivated.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3413.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/322","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you're either long time motivated, newly motivated to get something done, EverLibrary wants to help support your perspective we want to understand it And then it helps support it. We offer a lot of pro bono tools, a lot of pro bono supports.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3420.0,3435.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/323","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Data-driven engagements across different localities communications that we can do digitally.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3435.0,3442.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/324","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Moving folks from advocacy into activism working on the policy wonkery kinds of stuff Because Sam, right now, the way things go better in some states is to lose better.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3442.0,3457.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You know, you're not going to win this session. You're not going to win in that state right now. There has to be a whole bunch of new elections or somebody's got to retire or pass away.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3457.0,3466.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/326","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But how do we lose better? To me, that's a big opportunity in some of these states. And Sam.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3466.0,3473.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/327","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For states where there's a little bit more of a clear field or even a green light to do things that support good government and the common good, support the rights of readers, support the workforce.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3473.0,3485.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/328","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I want to do everything that we can to lean in because we need some momentum.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3485.0,3490.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/329","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This is a federalist system. What happens in congress is important, but not core. Most of the public library funding is raised at one zip code level.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3490.0,3500.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/330","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Most of the structure of higher ed, especially, aside from the top level accreditation issues.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3500.0,3506.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/331","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Is driven by the states. So what do we do together? We work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3506.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/332","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We get together, we talk about what we believe and what we hope and what we fear, and we do the work together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3510.0,3517.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/333","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I really want to thank you for that. And I want to thank you for coming and talking to us about this from a you know really well thought out perspective. And I want to thank all of our attendees for coming.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3517.0,3529.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/334","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"100%.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3529.0,3530.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/335","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We do have some more lyricist learning webinars coming up, which will uh dig into some other aspects of the current nature of the profession and some of the challenges we're facing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3530.0,3544.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/336","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I would encourage you to look through our course catalog on our website and look at those. And I just want to thank everyone again. And I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3544.0,3555.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/337","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sam, thanks to you and the nurses team. Be well, everybody.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3555.0,3556.0"},{"id":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533/transcript/74797/annotation/338","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we can go ahead. Take care. We can stop the recording, Shanai.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lyrasis.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3587/collection_resources/140931/file/260533#t=3556.0,3567.0"}]}]}]}