<div dir="ltr">The open access journal <i>College and Research Libraries</i> published an interesting article in their most recent issue: <div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"PT Sans",Helvetica,sans-serif">Oltmann, S. (2017). <a href="http://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/16733">Intellectual Freedom in Academic Libraries: Surveying Deans about Its Significance</a>. </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"PT Sans",Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">College & Research Libraries, 78</em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"PT Sans",Helvetica,sans-serif">(6), 741.</span></div><div><br></div></blockquote>The author's survey is far from comprehensive, but the results are a little disturbing. In many cases there was minimal training related to intellectual freedom and some respondents had a loose interpretation of ALA principles.<div><br></div><div>I'd be curious to hear the thoughts of academic librarians in Oregon regarding this study and its findings.<br><div><br></div><div>-Ross</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font style="color:rgb(51,51,51)" face="arial, sans-serif"><div style="border-collapse:collapse"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:arial"><div style=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:arial"><div style=""><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-bff4d3ea-e49b-c0d6-4fe0-bcad68817c0e" style=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ross Betzer</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chair - </span><a href="http://www.olaweb.org/if-home" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oregon Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Local Resource/Catalog Librarian - Multnomah County Library</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:ifc.chair@olaweb.org">ifc.chair@olaweb.org</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">503.988.5728 (Sun, Mon, Wed) / 503.988.5466 (Tue, Thu)</span></p><div style="font-size:x-small"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></span></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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