Intellectual Freedom: Issues and Information

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Schrader, A. Trosow, S. Samek, T. Bowman, D.

• CLA advocates for the protection of intellectual freedom for our school, public, academic and government library users, but our committee is also interested in promoting such freedoms in-housefor library staff. Thus, atthe 2008 CLA conference in Vancouver, the Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom hosted a panel \"Inside Talk: Freedom of Speech in the Library Workplace.\" The panel was carefully timed to pick up on momentum in the United States, where in June 2005 the ALA Council adopted a Resolution on Workplace Speech that concluded with the following counsel: \"Libraries should encourage discussion among library workers, including library administrators, of non-confidential professional and policy matters about the operation of the library and matters of public concern within the framework of applicable laws.\"

• Date created

  2011

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Work Environment
  • Freedom of Speech
  • Conferences
  • Libraries
  • Associations

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3901ZV6Q

• License

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