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Thanks for leading us in a challenging time and supporting us to do good work! Best of luck in Washington,

Greta B

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Jennifer, you accomplished so much during your time at SLO and provided us with wonderful leadership.  I wish you well as you move on to your next adventure.

Sara Belousek

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Thank you so much for your leadership as the Oregon State Librarian, advocate for libraries, and library workers. You have been an asset to the Oregon library community. Best wishes on our new adventure! It has been a pleasure working with you.

Thank you,
Laura Kimberly

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Thanks for being a great state librarian.  Thanks for always listening and being an inclusive leader.  

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Thank you,

Max Macias

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Thank you for your talent and excellent collaboration with Oregon Library Association. You helped us through a very challenging time with great aplomb. Have a wonderful new adventure!

Best,

Kate Lasky
Oregon Library Association President 2020-21

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Thanks for everything you have done for the staff of the State Library. We will miss you!
Arlene Weible

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As chair of the State Library Board, I wanted to say how much I've appreciated your talent, professionalism, hard work, and leadership. You took on this role under extraordinary circumstances and have accomplished so much, both within the State Library and with our many partners, including libraries throughout Oregon. It's been a complete pleasure working with you and I wish you the best in your new role. You will be missed!

Ann Malkin
Chair, State Library Board

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Jennifer, thanks so much for your openness and collaboration! I appreciate your insight and thoughtfulness on our work together. You helped move important efforts forward.

Kuri Gill
Oregon Heritage

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Thank you so much for your leadership. I was so fortunate to collaborate with you on not one but two ALA on the Hill days, memorable experiences both. I learned so much from you! Best wishes on your future endeavors. I'll miss you!

Thank you,
Halsted Bernard
Director, Tigard Public Library

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You have been an asset to the Oregon library community and we appreciate your efforts to support libraries during a time of momentous change. Thank you for leading the efforts to give libraries guidance and tools to improve our connections to our communities. We wish you all the best in your new adventures!
-Natasha Chitow
Head Librarian
Cottage Grove Public Library

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Once again, thank you so much, Jennifer, for the great leadership, especially during this last year of extraordinary challenges. Your communications and guidance have been important to all of us.  It has been a pleasure knowing and working with you.  Best wishes in your future adventures! 

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Once again, thank you so much, Jennifer, for the great leadership, especially during this last year of extraordinary challenges. Your communications and guidance have been important to all of us.  It has been a pleasure knowing and working with you.  Best wishes in your future adventures! 

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-Tina Hovekamp, Library Director,
Central Oregon Community College

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In your short time at the State Library, I feel like you've accomplished so much and helped move all of us in such a positive direction together. Your leadership, patience, and your willingness to listen to staff and take action has been such a huge comfort in an extremely challenging time for managers and staff everywhere!
We are gonna miss ya!
-Natalie Brant
Reference Coordinator
Government Information and Library Services Division at State Library of Oregon

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Thank you so much for taking a chance on coming to the State Library of Oregon! You have done such a fantastic job helping us out. With the strategic plan, the reorganizations, and your very person-focused approach, you've set SLO on a positive path forward that will be felt and appreciated for a long time. Best of luck in your new position, and health & happiness to your family.

Cheers!
Buzzy Nielsen
SLO Library Support manager

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Jennifer, I was lucky enough to start at the State Library under your leadership and you have been nothing but welcoming, supportive, encouraging, and kind. While I can't imagine the library without you, I know that you will be doing great things in your new position, and most importantly, with your family. Enjoy the time with them, they are lucky to have you!

Thanks again and best wishes!
Cory Horton
Operations Support Specialist
State Library of Oregon

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Thank you for your leadership on behalf of all types of libraries in Oregon. I especially appreciate your support of school libraries and how you attended OASL events to connect with and gather input from school library staff.

With appreciation,
Jenny Takeda
District Librarian
Beaverton School District

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Thanks so much for your leadership, guidance, and organizational and communication skills during your tenure as State Librarian.  You’ve never failed to treat staff and colleagues with respect, and have listened to and really heard what we had to say. 

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Thanks so much for your leadership, guidance, and organizational and communication skills during your tenure as State Librarian.  You’ve never failed to treat staff and colleagues with respect, and have listened to and really heard what we had to say. 

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All the best in you exciting new job!

Jey Wann
Oregon Documents Coordinator
State Library of Oregon

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Thank you and best of luck in your next adventures!

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What a time this was to be a state librarian! Thank you for all your hard work under truly extraordinary circumstances. I don't doubt that the work accomplished by you and the team at the state library in the last few years will ripple out into the future to beautiful results for years to come.

I hope you are very happy in your next adventure, and thank you again! Have some fun before you get back to work.

Best wishes,
Katrina Ehrnman-Newton
Youth services librarian
Garden Home Community Library

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It has been great having you lead the State Library the last several years.  Best wishes for many happy times ahead with the your family and new job
Andrea Clarkson
Catalog Assistant/BARD Administrator
Talking Book and Braille Library
State Library of Oregon

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Wishing you and your family the best and feeling grateful for the time you shared with the library community here in Oregon.

Kim Olson-Charles
Head of Library Public Services
University of Western States

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It was a pleasure getting to speak with you and get to know you a bit through OLA. You showed tremendous leadership in your role as our State Librarian! You'll be missed, best of luck on the next chapter!
Elsa Loftis,
PSU Library and OLA Awards Committee

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Thanks for being such a great leader for our State Library, Jennifer. You've made a number of very positive changes for our agency that I believe will endure for a long time into the future, and we are very sorry to lose you! Best wishes to you and yours on your next chapter!

Ross Fuqua
Data & Digital Projects Consultant
State Library of Oregon

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Thank you for your leadership, advocacy, and support of Oregon libraries during this historic period of time. Your stewardship of the State Library made and will continue to provide lasting benefits to the Oregon library community.

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Thank you for your leadership, advocacy, and support of Oregon libraries during this historic period of time. Your stewardship of the State Library made and will continue to provide lasting benefits to the Oregon library community.

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Elaine Hirsch
Lewis & Clark College

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Dear Jennifer,
Thanks for your outstanding support to EDI and Antiracism initiates in Oregon Libraries, and publicly positioning yourself in favor of EDI and Antiracism professional development to Librarians and Library staff.
You have done what no leader on the same position has ever done. You welcomed librarians of color to partake in decision making, trusting our leadership and listening to our voices, which for many years have been silenced in our profession. These actions, allied to your desire to collaborate to a more equitable workplace, have an immensurable value for Black, Indigenous and People of Color connected to Librarianship.
Your willingness to learn more about antiracism, shows your exceptional value as a government official and serves as inspiration for future generations of Oregon leaders.

Thank you very much! You will be missed!

OLA EDI Antiracism Committee

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I will miss your continued thoughtfulness and kindness. I was not expecting you to spend two hours of your time sitting with me during a (less than thrilling) confirmation hearing. That was only the first of many times you went above and beyond. Your continued efforts to reach out to staff and board members to connect with them on a personal level has always impressed me. You are not only a great leader, but a fantastic person as well. Thank you for all you have done for the State Library and the Library community in Oregon.

-Ben Tate

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I was so impressed that you attended our OASL Summer Board Retreat having barely arrived in Oregon.  You listened to our concerns and have been a wonderful support to school libraries in our state.  Thank you.  Best to you in your new endeavors!
Laurie Nordahl
Teacher Librarian/District Librarian
North Bend School District

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Thank you for your support of school libraries in Oregon, and best of luck in your new adventures.

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Thank you for your support of school libraries in Oregon, and best of luck in your new adventures.

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Jean Gritter
District Librarian
Greater Albany Public Schools

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Thank you for your leadership and advocacy for all Oregon's libraries-- and particularly for our school libraries.
Susan Stone
District Librarian
Portland Public Schools

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Best of luck on your next adventure. Thanks for all you've done to support Oregon Libraries. Wishing you the best. Kristen Thorp
West Slope Library, WCCLS

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Jennifer - thank you so much for your leadership and advocacy for libraries in an extremely challenging time. The communication from the State Library to public libraries during COVID has been excellent. We're glad you're doing what's best for you and your family, and we wish you all the best!

- Lisa Tattersall, WCCLS

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Thanks, Jennifer, for your calm and focused presence and leadership for the last couple of years. It was exactly what the State Library needed at that time. I remain impressed by how your face and demeanor never give away your stance or reaction. If you don't play poker, you should. ;-) Best of luck in this new chapter of your life.
~Jen Maurer
School Library Consultant
State Library of Oregon

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Hi Jennifer,
Thank you for your leadership and support for libraries during a difficult time. You've done an excellent job advocating for libraries, we appreciate you and will miss you. Best of luck in your new adventures!

All the best,
~Will O'Hearn for the Eugene Public Library

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Jennifer,
Thank you for your leadership over these last two years -- for the State Library, the Oregon library community, and our library partners and collaborators. We've learned so much from you!
Good luck with your future plans!
Amy Coughenour
Electronic Resources Librarian
Government Information & Library Services
State Library of Oregon

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Best to you and yours as you move on.  I know you , but I am sure you don't know me, but the important is  that you made a difference!  From Coastal Oregon!

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Best to you and yours as you move on.  I know you , but I am sure you don't know me, but the important is  that you made a difference!  From Coastal Oregon!

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Jennifer -  You are an amazing person and have done amazing things for the Oregon State Library.  You cared for your team, and you cared for the entire library community.  You are loved and you will be missed.   Sean Nickerson

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Dear Jennifer, Thanks for your advocacy on behalf of Oregon's public libraries during the pandemic.
Sincerely,
Glenn Ferdman
Beaverton City Library

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You are a fabulous advocate for community college libraries - and ALL libraries! Thanks for all your leadership, advocacy, and strength. - Clackamas Community College librarians, Oregon City

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Jennifer,
Good luck with your next adventure! Thank you for everything that you did for us and brought to the State Library and the Oregon library community.
Heather Pitts
Cataloging Services Librarian
State Library of Oregon, Government Information & Library Services

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Thank you so much for the support and advocacy you provided for Oregon state libraries! It was the worst of times, but your leadership provided needed guidance. Safe travels on future adventures.
John Schoppert
Oregon Tech Libraries

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Dear Jennifer,
Thank you for being a strong, steady, and calm presence in your tenure as Librarian at The State Library of Oregon. It felt good to many of us - myself included - knowing you were in your role and working so well with the other fantastic members of the SLO staff. While we are truly sad to see you go, I am also grateful to you for demonstrating healthy self-care and putting your family first. You really did right by the libraries in our state and we are grateful for your leadership in such a strange and challenging time. We are the better for having had you at the helm.
Christy Davis
Silver Falls Library District

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Your work with the State of Oregon during the pandemic is greatly appreciated. You stood strong for all the libraries and kept us informed.
Enjoy your family.
Sue Cousineau
Lower Umpqua Library District

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Dear Jennifer,
thank you so much for your leadership and advocacy on behalf of all libraries in Oregon! Your work made a difference!
Wishing you the best,
Jane Nichols
Oregon State University Libraries & Press

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Thank you for keeping an eye on Curry County and its libraries, for giving us calm and measured advice, and for taking our questions and concerns to state officials. You have inspired confidence during challenging times.
Curry Public Library District

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Thank you for all you have done for the State Library and its libraries.
The Ontario Library District