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Dear colleagues — Last week, the Digital LIbrary Federation was proud to be the first organizational signatory to a Code4Lib Community statement in support of C4L 2018 keynoter (and friend-of-DLF/past DLF Forum keynoter) Dr. Chris Bourg of MIT Libraries.

Chris has been subjected to targeted harassment since delivering a much-needed message<https://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/for-the-love-of-baby-unicorns-my-code4lib-2018-keynote/> about the many reasons women, people of color, and members of other marginalized groups may leave or choose not to enter technology careers. Please see the full Code4Lib statement here:

https://code4lib.github.io/c4l18-keynote-statement/

Signatures are still being accepted, via pull request or by submitting an issue<https://twitter.com/nowviskie/status/972641308992065536> on GitHub, or by simple request on the Code4Lib Slack and IRC channels and in other<https://twitter.com/gmcharlt/status/972262633012375553> social media venues. (If all else fails, drop me a line and I’ll add you myself.)

DLF was glad to serve as the fiscal host for the 2018 Code4Lib conference, and we share C4L values as expressed in our own Code of Conduct<https://www.diglib.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. There’s no place for the kind of treatment Chris received as a result of this talk — either within the library community or beyond it. — Bethany


Bethany Nowviskie
Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation, CLIR
Research Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, UVa
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