Break the Library Institutional Reliance on Unpaid BIPOC Labor!

YES

Yes, this.

EDIA work is essential and should not be unpaid labor.

I support this very important petition and am wholeheartedly in support.

I wholeheartedly support the creation and funding of a paid EDIA staff consultant position at the State Library of Oregon. We cannot continue to expect that library professionals of color volunteer their time, energy, expertise, and resilience to move this important work forward.

We must pay folks for the tremendously important and taxing work of improving our libraries, communites, and ourselves!

I like the idea of creating an EDIA staff consultant position but am unclear whether the petition is asking for Marci Ramiro-Jenkins to obtain the position or for her to lead the effort to create the position. I imagine it's asking for the latter :-).

I whole-hearted support this effort.

I am grateful to OLA for their advocacy and am wholeheartedly in support.

well i am honored to join this petition and i am willing to corporate in whatever means. Thank you together we build the great team

This is an advocacy effort, there are no promises, deals, offers, and/or set outcomes to favor me or anyone else involved with this petition. This is not a petition to "demand" anything, this is a petition to gauge the library community interest and an attempt to bring awareness to the invisible labor imposed on BIPOC. There is nothing new or wrong about leaders advocating for themselves and seeking the support of people who are familiar with a cause and with the hard work involved in it, specially when it is done in a non-partisan, spontaneous, unpretentious and respectful way.

I support the creation of this position. However, it should be a competitive process for hiring, and I do not necessarily support one candidate above others.

I support this petition with all my heart. Marci Ramiro-Jenkins is long overdue to be the permanent PAID EDIA consultant at SLO. As many already have said, it shouldn't be the work of one person either even if it's paid. Marci should be the head of a paid EDIA team that can lead us to address EDIA challenges in all Oregon libraries.

The fight must go on! When you're tired, feel like giving up, dont see an immediate positive outcome, always, ALWAYS as I do remember those who came before us. Freedom is Not Free! Fight On!

Worthy cause thank you for your efforts !

This is a huge problem in schools and school libraries as well. The expectation that people of color volunteer their time and emotional energy to combat racism is unacceptable.

Let's be nimble State Library of Oregon- this should have been done years ago. Hire a permanent EDIA Consulting position. I would also suggest an assistant and a librarian to support the EDIA tasks.

Could be the most important position in the library system to have one person devoted to this important work. But it cannot be reliant on one person. It will also take the support of all members of the library community.

A necessary addition in order to make impact!

"Why is it that our EDIA volunteers are expected to provide continuous, unpaid consultation?" This is such an important question to me. I whole-heartedly support investment in a long-term solution to address EDIA challenges in Oregon Libraries through a paid EDIA Consulting Position at the State Library of Oregon. A reliance on unpaid labor perpetuates the very problems that labor may be meant to address.