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Call for Abstracts: IFLA Journal special issue on Intellectual Freedom

  • 1.  Call for Abstracts: IFLA Journal special issue on Intellectual Freedom

    Posted Mar 23, 2021 11:23 AM

    (Apologies for cross-posting across communities)

    IFLA Journal and the IFLA Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) Advisory Committee are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for a special issue that marks the 20th anniversary of the IFLA Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom. The journal seeks to publish new and original research, case studies, and essays that will a) examine the impact the Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom has had on the library profession over the past twenty years, and/or b) examine the impact of the past twenty years on the Statement.

    Submission Deadline: 23 April 2021 (extended)   Please read the full call online at  Call for Abstracts: IFLA Journal special issue on Intellectual Freedom

    Abstracts will be considered for invited submissions that will address the following areas as they relate to the Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom:

    Professional Impact

    1. Professional Practice
      1. Library and Information Science (LIS) education
      2. Acquisitions and collection development
      3. The relationship between personal beliefs and professional responsibility
    2. Defence of Freedom of Expression (FOE)
      1. Activism
      2. Capacity to defend FOE 
    3. Impact of the statement on profession at large
      1. Adoption of the statement within national context
      2. Examples of libraries defending intellectual freedom, based on the principles of the Statement

    The Changing World

    1. Information environment
      1. Disinformation/Fake news (i.e. active manipulation of environment)
      2. Algorithms /machine learning/artificial intelligence (i.e. incidental/accidental manipulation of environment)
      3. Anonymity/Privacy/Right to be forgotten
    2. Impacts of a changing political environment on statement's relevance
      1. UN Declarations and positions in the past 20 years (including UN Declaration of Human Rights)
      2. Climate change
      3. Rise of populism
    Guest Editors
    Stuart Hamilton, PhD
    Head of Libraries Development for the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA), Ireland
    Barbara Jones
    Consultant and former Director of the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom

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    Deborah Caldwell-Stone
    Director
    American Library Association
    Office for Intellectual Freedom
    (312) 280-4224
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