Intellectual freedom is now—and will likely always be—a necessary topic for librarians to examine. If every book has its reader, most books will also have a challenger. In addition to considering ...

“If the Intellectual Freedom Committee is the brains of the ALA and the Committee on Professional Ethics is the conscience, then we (the LeRoy C. Merritt Fund) are the righteous arm for the individual ...

The Heritage Foundation member Adam Kissel, of Charleston, West Virginia, asks the panelists how they would measure their ...

The Board of Regents finalized the advisory board for the newly established University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom on Sept. 17. Described as a center aiming to promote intellectual ...

Sitting in a meeting with Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya in 2023, Dan Novack knew he had to make a choice. States across the country were passing laws intended to remove titles from school ...

With censorship and book bans still on the rise, defending intellectual freedom remains vital. And one powerful way to defend intellectual Freedom is is to honor those who fight for it. In that spirit ...

Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad spoke Tuesday at a subcommittee meeting in support of legislation that would launch a “school of intellectual freedom” at the University of Iowa, countering critics who ...

First things first: thanks to all of you who signed the White House petition. It worked, and well before the deadline. On another matter, one of the online communities where I lurk and occasionally ...

Dr. Danielle Sachdeva and Dr. Wes Whitaker received an invitation from publisher IGI Global to work on "Supporting Students' Intellectual Freedom in Schools: The Right to Read," a new book about ...

An "intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity" assessment is now being distributed to public university and college campuses in Florida. The questionnaire to survey students and faculty was ...

From their very founding, the State of Wyoming and University of Wyoming (UW) have regarded equality as a source of strength and pride. When Wyoming gained statehood in 1889, its Constitution ...