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Choose Privacy Week Brief: Let’s Encrypt / HTTPS Everywhere

IT specialists like Marshall Breeding and privacy advocates like Alison Macrina of the Library Freedom Project are urging libraries and vendors to encrypt their websites and online automation and discovery […]

May 5, 2015 Deborah Caldwell-Stone Uncategorized

Choose Privacy Week 2015: CPW Activities Around the United States

Crossposted from Choose Privacy Week Libraries and schools around the country are observing Choose Privacy Week 2015 with a variety of activities.   Here’s a sampling of what libraries are […]

May 1, 2015 Deborah Caldwell-Stone Uncategorized

IFAction: Media’s First Impressions and Analysis of President Obama’s Exiting SOTU

This is a special mid-week IFAction roundup of news and op-ed articles articulating and assessing issues relevant to intellectual freedom in President Obama’s final State of the Union address last evening. Obama […]

January 21, 2015 Bradley Compton Uncategorized

Did you report that challenge?

  OIF is working to finalize our numbers for 2014 challenges and our annual list of most frequently challenged books. We collect information for our challenge database from both media […]

January 20, 2015 Kristin Pekoll Uncategorized

IFAction News Roundup, January 11 — January 17, 2015

The Office for Intellectual Freedom sponsors IFAction, an email list for those who would like updated information on news affecting intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information, and more. Click […]

January 19, 2015 Bradley Compton Uncategorized

IFAction News Roundup, January 4 — January 10, 2015

  The Office for Intellectual Freedom sponsors IFAction, an email list for those who would like updated information on news affecting intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information, and more. […]

January 19, 2015 Bradley Compton Uncategorized

School Librarians and Intellectual Freedom web meeting

Since October, our office has taken calls from 52 librarians seeking censorship support. 39 of those cases involve schools. OIF hosts quarterly web meetings with state IFC chairs from ALA Chapters and […]

January 16, 2015 Kristin Pekoll AASL, Intellectual Freedom Issues, Online learning, Uncategorized

IFAction News Roundup, December 21 — December 27, 2014

The Office for Intellectual Freedom sponsors IFAction, an email list for those who would like updated information on news affecting intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information, and more. Click […]

December 29, 2014 Bradley Compton Uncategorized

IFAction News Roundup, December 7 — December 13, 2014

The Office for Intellectual Freedom sponsors IFAction, an email list for those who would like updated information on news affecting intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information, and more. Click […]

December 16, 2014 Bradley Compton Uncategorized

IFAction News Roundup, November 30 — December 6, 2014

The Office for Intellectual Freedom sponsors IFAction, an email list for those who would like updated information on news affecting intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information, and more. Click […]

December 6, 2014December 6, 2014 Bradley Compton Uncategorized

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