We are pleased to announce the dates of two major Office for Intellectual Freedom initiatives for 2012:

The third Choose Privacy Week will be May 1-7, 2012.  Choose Privacy Week posters, bookmarks, buttons, and other resources are available for sale now at the ALA Store.  To stay abreast of Choose Privacy Week announcements, follow @privacyala on Twitter or become a Facebook fan.  The theme for this year is “Freedom from Surveillance”:

Banned Books Week 2012 will take place September 30 – October 6.  2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the first Banned Books Week, and the Office for Intellectual Freedom and our sponsoring partners have a lot of terrific activities in store! Check out the ALA website on Banned Books Week and bannedbooksweek.org for more information. You also can become a fan at www.facebook.com/bannedbooksweek or follow @OIF on Twitter – the hashtag is #BannedBooksWeek.

2012 promises to be a banner year for OIF programming, so mark your calendars!