Intellectual Freedom

Blog entry: If You Google Net Neutrality, What Do You Get?

There’s been no dearth of opining in the past few days about the implications of Google and Verizon banding together to “find ways to protect the future openness of the internet and encourage the rapid deployment of broadband,” which is...

Posted August 11, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

News Story: Gay-Anthology Ban Engulfs Burlington County Public Library

Some six months after Burlington County, New Jersey, resident Beverly Martinelli appeared before the Rancocas Valley Regional High...

Posted July 28, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

Feature: Librarians Head for the Hill to Rally for Reading

ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., attracts 26,000 enthusiastic professionals.

Library Advocacy Day attendee with banner.

Librarians and their supporters spoke loudly and clearly about the value of libraries during the American Library Association’s 2010 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., June 24–29.

On Library...

Posted July 27, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

Departments: Surveying My Sex Appeal

The climax to my 15 minutes of media fame

"No, really . . . a librarian sex survey will be great fun."

The following story is a cautionary tale for all of those people who say that the internet has replaced the reference collection and that Google has replaced reference librarians.

On a cheery morning in late April 1992, I...

Posted July 26, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

PIO News Release: The eighth edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual

book cover for "Intellectual Freedom Manual, Eighth Edition"

CHICAGO—ALA Editions, the...

Posted July 20, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

PIO News Release: Freedom to Read Foundation announces competition for two Banned Books Week grants

Judith Krug Fund will provide $2,500 and $1,000 awards to Read-Outs

CHICAGO – The Freedom to Read Foundation (...

Posted July 20, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

PIO News Release: ALA OIF releases Banned Books: Challenging the Freedom to Read

Book cover: Banned Books: Challenging the Freedom to Read

The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom announces the release of “Banned Books: Challenging our Freedom to Read,” by Robert P. Doyle...

Posted July 13, 2010 | Comments: | Read More

News Story: Playwrights Define Censorship

Playwrights David Henry Hwang, Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, and Adam Rapp.

Rocco Staino

Before heading to ALA’s Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., young-adult author Adam Rapp spent an evening with fellow playwrights Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, and David Henry Hwang discussing censorship....

Posted July 13, 2010 | Comments: | Read More