[Libs-Or] [Fwd: [alacro-l] ALA IFRT ProQuest/SIRS State and Regional Intellectual Freedom Achievement Award: Deadline January 9]

[Suzanne Sager]

FYI

Suzanne L. Sager
Oregon ALA Chapter Councilor

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Subject: 	[alacro-l] ALA IFRT ProQuest/SIRS State and Regional 
Intellectual Freedom Achievement Award: Deadline January 9
Date: 	Wed, 3 Dec 2008 11:39:27 -0500
From: 	Don Wood <dwood at ala.org>
Reply-To: 	alacro-l at ala.org
To: 	<alacro-l at ala.org>



The ProQuest/SIRS State and Regional Intellectual Freedom Achievement 
Award is given to the most innovative and effective intellectual freedom 
project covering a state or region. Programs may be one-time, one-year 
or ongoing/multi-year efforts. The award consists of a citation and 
$1,000 donated by ProQuest (http://www.il.proquest.com/en-US/).

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/ifrt/awardsfinal/SIRS_ProQuest_Award/sirs.cfm

Examples might include a statewide public relations initiative to 
promote awareness of intellectual freedom, programmatic assistance to 
meet a broad-based censorship challenge, coalition building or education 
outreach efforts, or effective reorganization or management of an 
intellectual freedom committee.

State libraries or library associations, educational media associations 
or programs, legal defense funds, intellectual freedom committees or 
coalitions and related parties are eligible for nomination by themselves 
or others.


    Sponsor and Deadline

The ProQuest/SIRS State and Regional Intellectual Freedom Achievement 
Award is sponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) of the 
American Library Association (ALA) and ProQuest.

*The deadline has been extended in to January 9!*


    Nominations

Full criteria and nomination forms are available from the Office for 
Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., 
Chicago, IL 60611.

Nominations and supporting evidence should be sent to:

Jen Hammond, IFRT Staff Liaison, ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 
60611. Telephone: 312-280-4223 or 800-545-2433, ext. 4223. Fax: 
312-280-4227. E-mail: *jhammond at ala.org.* <mailto:jhammond at ala.org.> 


    Criteria

·         A project has been unusually successful in fundraising for the 
promotion of intellectual efforts in the state or region.

·         A state committee, etc. has been unusually successful in 
coalition-building so that allied groups are marshalled 
effectively to support intellectual freedom in the state or region.

·         A state committee, etc. has done an exemplary PR task in 
promoting awareness of intellectual freedom issues in the state or 
region, as judged by numbers reached and/or other results.

·         A project has been effective in recruiting activists within 
and outside of librarianship to work with the state committee, etc. in 
intellectual freedom projects.

·         A structure has been conceived that markedly enhances the 
continuity and effectiveness of state chapter efforts in intellectual 
freedom.

·         A committee, etc. has succeeded in galvanizing to an unusual 
extent support for intellectual freedom within a state chapter.

·         A state committee, etc. has intervened with special 
effectiveness in an intellectual freedom crisis in the state or region.  
Such intervention should, preferably, in the opinion of the committee, 
have resulted in a clear victory over the forces of censorship.

·         Projects that can be generalized to other chapters will merit 
special attention of the IFRT State Program Award.


      Related Files

    * ProQuest/SIRS State and Regional Intellectual Freedom Achievement
      Award Nomination Form
      <http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/ifrt/awardsfinal/SIRS_ProQuest_Award/proquestsirsawardform.pdf>

 

Don Wood

Program Officer

Chapter Relations Office

American Libraries Association

50 East Huron Street

Chicago, IL 60466

dwood at ala.org

1-800-545-2433, ext. 2429

312-280-2429

312-280-4392 (fax)

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