Tag: Freedom to Read Foundation
Your Guide to Intellectual Freedom, Privacy, and Advocacy at ALA Annual 2026
Welcome to your guide to intellectual freedom and privacy at ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition 2025, June 25 – 29! With unceasing censorship attempts in our communities and legislative attacks from the federal level on down, this year’s conference lineup includes sessions and meetings that tackle these critical issues.
Your Guide to Intellectual Freedom, Privacy, and Advocacy at ALA Annual 2025
Welcome to your guide to intellectual freedom and privacy at ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition 2025, June 26 – 30! With unceasing censorship attempts in our communities and legislative attacks from the federal level on down, this year’s conference lineup includes sessions and meetings that tackle these critical issues. This guide is crafted to help you find conference sessions focused on intellectual freedom, privacy, and advocacy.
Your Guide to Intellectual Freedom and Privacy at ALA Annual 2024
Welcome to your guide to intellectual freedom and privacy at ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition 2024, June 27 – July 2! With censorship on the rise, this year’s conference lineup includes sessions and meetings that tackle these critical issues. This guide is crafted to help you find conference sessions focused on intellectual freedom and privacy.
Intellectual Freedom & Privacy at LibLearnX 2024
Join the Office for Intellectual Freedom and library workers from around the country this weekend for LibLearnX 2024! Keep reading for a rundown of intellectual freedom and privacy programs.
Banned Books Week 2023: Programs, Day of Action, and More
Libraries, schools, bookstores, and groups around the world will be calling attention to censorship – and ways to fight it – October 1 – 7, 2023. The American Library Association […]
Don’t Miss these Intellectual Freedom Events at ALA Annual!
Are you attending the American Library Association’s Annual Conference & Exhibition this year in Washington D.C.? Keep reading for the intellectual freedom & censorship highlights at this year’s Annual.
Freedom to Read Foundation Banned Book Week Grant Recipients
Every year the Freedom to Read Foundation awards libraries with grants to facilitate programming, outreach, displays and other promotional work around Banned Books Week. These grants are funded out of the Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund. This year’s banned book week theme is “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.” and will take place at libraries, schools, and booksellers around the country on Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2021. This year four public libraries and one school library were awarded grants.
The First Joint Intellectual Freedom Awards
For the first time, the Intellectual Freedom Awards were presented in a joint awards ceremony. The awards given are: Robert P. Downs Award, the Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award, the Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award, the John Philip Immroth Award, and the Freedom to Read Foundation Honor Roll. Learn more about this past year’s intellectual freedom powerhouses here.
Be the Change: How to Support BIPOC Librarians and Writers of Color
Although there is no one way to support emerging BIPOC librarians, we can all agree: It is transformative when you exercise the opportunity to do so. If you want to support social justice and intellectual freedom education, the “Be the Change” Book Bundle is for you. Revenues from the “Be the Change” eBook Bundle will go to ALA general fund initiatives, including the Spectrum Scholarship Program.
Celebrating Banned Books Week at Central Washington University, Freedom to Read Foundation Grant Winner
When we looked at ALA’s Ten Most Challenged Books of 2019 and saw that 8 of the 10 most banned books were challenged for LGBTQIA+ themes, we knew that we should center LGBTQIA+ themes in our Banned Books Week programming.