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| Current Events |
- Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA): this ALA website tracks the act's progress and litigation developments.
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| Links to Further Resources |
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: A resource designed to help you understand the protections intellectual property laws and the First Amendment give to your online activities. A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, and University of San Francisco law school clinics.
Copyright Issues For The Librarian: presentation by IFC member Paul Rittelmeyer. On April 13, 2001 the IFC and Region 6 sponsored the program "Fair Use in the Digital Age: UCITA, recent copyright law, and their impact on library services in Virginia" at Northside Library, Charlottesville. This PowerPoint presentation covers Paul's program talk on the history and current state of copyright law, including fair use and the law's recent updating by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).
LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund: A sister organization to the American Library Association, the Merritt Fund gives unique aid to librarians who face: workplace discrimination on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, age, disability, or place of national origin; unfair employment practices; professional and personal adversity due to their defense of intellectual freedom. Since its inception in 1970, the Fund has provided over $80,000 in grants to support librarians in their fight for intellectual freedom and professional integrity.
The First Amendment Library clearinghouse for information concerning the five freedoms — speech, press, assembly, petition and religion — guaranteed by the First Amendment to our Constitution. To that end, a vast array of judicial, legislative, historical, analytical, journalistic, editorial and other materials have been collected, organized and presented, free of charge, to all users of the First Amendment Center’s Web site.
Intellectual Freedom Bibliography: [Acrobat PDF format] from the 1999 VLA Conference program, "How Do You Manage?"
"Intellectual Freedom Vision Statement" and "Open Access to the Internet": VLA Council adopts two position statements, in collaboration with the IFC and with considerable input from Association members.
"Safety on the Information Superhighway: Is there an Internet Filter in your Future?" : Summary report on the IFC's program at the October 1997 VLA Conference (prepared by Donna Pletcher, Technical Services Librarian, Bedford Public Library, Bedford, Virginia.) Filtering Bibliography.
IFC-sponsored program reports from the 1998 VEMA/VLA Joint Conference:
"Putting Ethics Back into Access" (Dr. Jean Preer, speaker)
"From City Halls to State Capitols to the U.S. Congress: Advocates Team Up to Support Library Programs" (panel discussion)"Censored: Wielding the Red Pen"
This was a fascinating exhibit at Alderman Library, University of Virginia. Now you can visit a digital version at http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/censored/**************************************
| Intellectual Freedom Manual |
- VLA Intellectual Freedom Manual (1999 edition)
- 1999 edition - Acrobat PDF format (for printing)
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| ALA Resources |
- USA Patriot Act Resolutions of State Library Associations
- ALA Code of Ethics
- ALA Library Bill of Rights
- ALA Privacy and Confidentiality Alerts
- ALA Resolution on the Use of Filtering Software in Libraries
- ALA's CIPA Web Site
- ALA's Banned Books Week Web Site
- "Libraries: An American Value": ALA's final draft that the VLA Council has endorsed.
- IFACTION: a news-only, no-discussion e-list of the Intellectual Freedom Action Network (IFAN) and the Office for Intellectual Freedom. Several intellectual freedom news items are posted daily.
- Intellectual Freedom Action Network
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