INFO: Office of Intellectual Freedom

[GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido <ladyhawk@WELL.COM>]

Forwarded from the ALA membership list fyi.

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Date sent:              Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:36:51 -0500
From:                   "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
To:                     <member-forum@ala.org>
Subject:                [MEMBER-FORUM:100] Help OIF!
Send reply to:          dwood@ala.org

As you probably know, OIF tracks challenges to books and
other materials in schools and libraries.  Challenges
reported directly to us are kept confidential and used to
prepare statistics and track trends. (See URLs to challenge
support information below.)

We also track information about challenges that have been
reported in the media.  These challenges, which are
"public," are reported in the Newsletter on Intellectual
Freedom and the Banned Books Resource Guide.
 Both are valuable resources for censorship research.

We need your help!  Challenges are local events and are most
often reported in small- and medium-sized publications with
a local focus. We rely on intellectual freedom advocates
like yourselves to share news of these incidents with us.
Please ask your colleagues to keep an eye out for
intellectual freedom news, and to share any information with
us!

Clips can be sent to:

Office for Intellectual Freedom
American Library Association
50 E. Huron St.
Chicago, IL 60611
fax: 312-280-4227
email: oif@ala.org

To reach us by phone, call 800-545-2433 x. 4223

URLs to Challenge Support

Dealing with Challenges to Books and Other Library Materials

http://tinyurl.com/93e3

or

http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/
Of
fices/Intellectual_Freedom3/Challenge_Support/Dealing_with_C
hallenges/Default1208.htm

Reporting a Challenge

http://tinyurl.com/djvj

or

http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/
Of
fices/Intellectual_Freedom3/Challenge_Support/Reporting_a_Ch
allenge/Reporting_a_Challenge.htm

The Online Database Challenge Form is available at

http://tinyurl.com/djtd

or

http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/
Of
fices/Intellectual_Freedom3/Challenge_Support/Reporting_a_Ch
allenge/challengedatabaseform.html

See also

Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom
http://www.ala.org/nif



------- End of forwarded message -------GraceAnne A. DeCandido, MLS
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A few good Italian American books, and 2002 favorites for children
http://www.well.com/user/ladyhawk/books.html

My favorite tea quote~
But this will cure all streight, one sip of this
Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight
Beyond the bliss of dreams. Be wise, and taste.
~John Milton, The Masque of Comus, lines 810-811

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