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Showing posts with label intellectual freedom. Show all posts

Showing posts with label intellectual freedom. Show all posts

Saturday, July 08, 2023

INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM STATEMENT: THE INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL LIBRARIANS OF ONTARIO, APRIL 1972

In the 1950s and early 1960s, Ontario librarians began to believe they should have a separate provincial body to speak for ‘professional lib...

Monday, May 23, 2022

Intellectual Freedom Statement adopted by the Canadian Library Association in 1966

Canadian Libraries and Intellectual Freedom Although the Canadian Library Association-Association Canadienne des Bibliothèques did not adopt...

Friday, May 13, 2022

Intellectual freedom statement adopted by Ontario Library Association in 1963

Ontario Libraries and Censorship Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, the Ontario and Canadian library associations formed specific committ...

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Alexander Calhoun defends The Grapes of Wrath in Calgary, 1940

“The problem of obscenity in books is undoubtedly a very thorny one for librarians. Possibly the only confident statement one dare make on ...

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