Knowledge: intellectual freedom
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Links
- Censorship and Intellectual Freedom Page
http://php.indiana.edu/~quinnjf/censor.html - Annotated collection of links on a variety of topics related to censorship and intellectual freedom.
- American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
http://www.bookweb.org/orgs/related/abffe/ - Links to the Free Expression Newsletter and other sites relating to bookselling and freedom of speech.
- Articles on Censorship: A Look at the Different Sides of the Issue
http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/article.htm - There is more than one side to any story. This is more true with censorship of the written word than with most topics. You know where you stand on this issue, but what is your opinion based on? Is it based on fact and your morals, or on other people's morals? To help determine this, it is a good idea to find out what other people have thought on the issue. Here are some articles, essays and speeches that cover this issue from a different side of the story.
- Texas Library Association Intellectual Freedom Handbook
http://www.txla.org/pubs/ifhbk.html - Practical and theoretical information on intellectual freedom, censorship, and related issues.
- Suppression of Speech by the United States Government: The Children's Internet Protection Act
http://www.mlaforum.org/volumeI/issue1/suppression.html - Argues that the federal government attempted to engage in mass censorship by passing the Children's Internet Protection Act.
- Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression
http://users.rcn.com/kyp/bcfe.html - Resources, reports, and a list of "Heroes and Villains."
- PICS, Censorship, and Intellectual Freedom FAQ
http://www.w3.org/PICS/PICS-FAQ-980126.html - Examines intellectual freedom issues raised by the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS), a set of technical specifications developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and often used in filtering software.
- ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/ - The Office for Intellectual Freedom is charged with implementing ALA policies concerning the concept of intellectual freedom as embodied in the Library Bill of Rights, the Associations basic policy on free access to libraries and library materials. The goal of the office is to educate librarians and the general public about the nature and importance of intellectual freedom in libraries.
- ALA's The Freedom to Read Statement
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/ftrstatement/ - The Association's policy statement on intellectual freedom and censorship.
- ALA's Library Bill of Rights
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/statementsif/ - The Associations basic policy on free access to libraries and library materials.
- Information for Social Change
http://www.libr.org/ISC/ - An activist organisation that examines issues of censorship, freedom and ethics amongst library and information workers.
- South Dakota Library Association: Intellectual Freedom
http://www.sdlibraryassociation.org/home/intellectualfreedom.asp - Links and information on Surf Safe, the association's web safety program.
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