Intellectual Freedom
NCLA Intellectual Freedom Committee
John Harer, Chair, Mailing address: 172 Department of Library Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858; Phone: (252) 328-4389 email: harerj [at] ecu [dot] edu
Charges:
- To promote professional and public awareness of the importance of free access to information and the responsibility of libraries to provide such access
- To serve as a clearinghouse for information relative to censorship
- To support libraries in defense of intellectual freedom when requested to do so
- To keep the Association and the Executive Board informed of infringements of intellectual freedom
- To encourage librarians to adopt written selection policies and to secure the approval of such policies by their local boards
- To cooperate with the Governmental Relations Committee in opposing any statutory abridgment of freedom in the selection and use of library materials
- To urge librarians to ensure the privacy of library records
- To speak for the Association on matters of intellectual freedom when empowered by the Executive Board
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