[AL-Directors] Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse: Challenge Reports due

[Katie Anderson]

Dear Public and Academic Library Directors,

    

Every year the Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse (OIFC)  publishes a report on challenges to all types of library materials in Oregon.  This  report provides a landscape of censorship activity in Oregon,  and is submitted to ALA's Office of  Intellectual Freedom to be included in their report on censorship activity in  the United States.   The Annual Report is also used by librarians, professors, and teachers to  help them develop activities for Banned Books Week.    

     

The Annual Report is based on challenge reports OIFC receives from all  types of Oregon  libraries (school, academic, and public).  All libraries are encouraged to  report challenges to materials on a voluntary basis.  OIFC does not  publish names of people, organizations,  libraries, schools, colleges/universities,  or towns identified in challenge reports.      

     

I will be compiling the 2009 OIFC Annual  Report in August.   Please submit  all challenge reports by August 1, 2009.   Submit  a separate challenge report for each formal challenge to library materials that  occurred at your library between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009.    

     

This information is complied to assist Oregon libraries currently facing a  challenge as well as providing information that will help you plan Banned Books  Week activities.  The Annual Report will tell you what books were  challenged in Oregon  libraries the previous year.  The more libraries reporting challenges to  OIFC the better OIFC can help you!     

     

Please take time to report challenges to OIFC.  The accuracy of  OIFC's Annual Report and Title Index to Challenges is directly related to the  number of Oregon  libraries reporting challenges.      

     

To report challenges to materials at your library:    

* Print the attached       challenge report form or download and print the form at http://oregon.gov/OSL/LD/intellectual.shtml#Report_Challenges.       
* Fill out a challenge       report form for each item that went through your library's formal process       for dealing with challenges to library material. 
* Mail your completed       form(s) to:
    

Oregon   State Library    

c/o Oregon  Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse    

250 Winter St.   NE    

Salem,   OR 97301    

     

For more information about OIFC visit our website (http://oregon.gov/OSL/LD/intellectual.shtml)  or contact the coordinator of OIFC, Katie Anderson, 503-378-2528.      

     

Thank you,    

Katie Anderson    

             
    

 Katie Anderson,  Library Development Services
  * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon   Center for the Book  Coordinator *
  Oregon State  Library, 250 Winter St. NE,  Salem, OR   97301
  katie.anderson at state.or.us,  503-378-2528  
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