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2020 Slate of Officers

Posted By John Mack Freeman Dec 04, 2019 08:42 AM
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Chair-Elect (3 Year Term)  Steve Norman  Steph Barnaby  Sam Helmick  Directors-at-Large (2 Year Term, 2 positions)  Kristin Anderson  Danielle Hartsfield  C. DeWitt Salley   Jeremy Betts  Secretary (2 Year Term)  Kyle Binaxas  Rebecca Moorman  Please note: Any members ...

Calling All Members! Nominations are Open for IFRT Elections!

Posted By John Mack Freeman Oct 31, 2019 01:31 PM
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Hello everyone! The IFRT Nominating Committee is currently in the process of putting together a slate of candidates for the 2020 IFRT Elections. Next year, we will be voting on the following position: -2 Directors-at-Large (2 year term) -Secretary (2 year term) -Vice-chair/Chair-elect (3 year ...

Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights: Call for Comments

Posted By John Mack Freeman May 16, 2019 03:59 PM
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Hey everyone, I'm cross-posting this email that came through from Julia Warga regarding new interpretations to the Library Bill of Rights that will be presented at Annual: Hello, This is the fourth request for feedback from the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC) after the Midwinter ...

RE: Challenged comics and graphic novels

Posted By John Mack Freeman May 16, 2019 11:21 AM
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I think that's a good point: how do people sound the alarm about issues when they actually do want/need that outside help. The few times that I've experienced that, mostly in the context of chairing Georgia's Intellectual Freeodm Interest Group, we've deferred to the wishes of the person going through ...

RE: Challenged comics and graphic novels

Posted By John Mack Freeman May 15, 2019 03:45 PM
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I would assume that in many states, a truly anonymous challenge wouldn't hold up to scrutiny, at least in public libraries. It's my understanding that public library records are open to examination through sunshine and open disclosure laws, so the identity of the challenger would be able to be found ...

IFRT Strategic Plan: Draft open for comments!

Posted By John Mack Freeman May 15, 2019 03:35 PM
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Hello everyone, IFRT Strategic Planning - Draft Plan 2019-2022The IFRT Strategic Planning Task Force has approved a draft strategic plan. It is open for comment and discussion through the end of May. Everyone is encouraged to comment as they see fit with additions, changes, and recommendations. You ...

IFRT Fundraiser Events at Annual Conference - Get Your Tickets!

Posted By John Mack Freeman Mar 26, 2019 01:46 PM
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Hello everyone! As you may have heard, we sold out of the first 100 tickets that were purchased for the Capitol Steps fundraiser! Great work to Charles and his team for all the work they have put into this. Because there were numerous people who wanted to attend who weren't able to get tickets yet, ...

Buying IFRT Fundraiser Tickets AFTER Registering For Conference

Posted By John Mack Freeman Jan 29, 2019 04:31 PM
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Hello everyone, If you have already paid for your conference registration to Annual but need to add tickets for the Capitol Steps program or the IFRT Breakfast, I have put together a guide document that may be helpful in editing your conference registration. Guide to Adding Ticketed Events to Annual ...

IFRT Virtual Board Meeting - Draft Minutes

Posted By John Mack Freeman Jan 15, 2019 01:09 PM
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Here are the minutes from today's virtual board meeting that consisted of reports from the board and committee chairs. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-EBX8Vr-iY0C_fEBydZeph65KijsFwB-cg4zt2Tc1pY/edit?usp=sharing ------------------------------ ...

IFRT Midwinter Meeting: Call for Reports and Agenda Items

Posted By John Mack Freeman Jan 11, 2019 01:57 PM
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If you have agenda items for our Midwinter virtual or in-person meetings, please send them to me or Isabel or add them to this post for inclusion on the agenda. Committee chairs, please create a report for what your committee has been working on and place it on Connect by next Friday, January 18. ...

RE: IFRT Strategic Planning Survey

Posted By John Mack Freeman Dec 13, 2018 02:46 PM
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REMINDER: The Intellectual Freedom Round Table of the American Library Association is currently soliciting feedback as we undergo a strategic planning process for 2019-2022. We would like your input on the following survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IFRTfuture18 The survey should take ...

IFRT Strategic Planning Survey

Posted By John Mack Freeman Dec 03, 2018 01:06 PM
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The Intellectual Freedom Round Table of the American Library Association is currently soliciting feedback as we undergo a strategic planning process for 2019-2022. We would like your input on the following survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IFRTfuture18 The survey should take 5-10 minutes to ...

IFRT Strategic Planning Task Force: September Meeting Notes

Posted By John Mack Freeman Sep 18, 2018 11:55 AM
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On September 5, the IFRT Strategic Planning Task Force met. As part of our effort for transparency in planning to the membership, we plan on sharing notes throughout this process. If you have comments or things you'd like to add for us to consider, please respond to this thread or reach out to me directly. ...

Additional Volunteers Needed: Membership Committee

Posted By John Mack Freeman Sep 04, 2018 10:04 PM
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Hi everyone, We are looking for 2-3 more people for this year's membership committee. This committee doesn't have to meet in-person, and their primary role is to contact new, renewing, dropped, and expired members to make sure that they maintain their IFRT membership on a monthly basis. They have ...

IFRT Strategic Planning: 2019-2022

Posted By John Mack Freeman Aug 16, 2018 08:25 AM
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As part of our goals for this year, we are putting together a planning document for 2019-2022 to guide iFRT through this period of change in ALA. We are hopeful that this will put IFRT on a great footing to embrace new challenges while engaging our members in their pursuit and defense of intellectual ...

Emerging Leader Applications Still Open

Posted By John Mack Freeman Aug 08, 2018 06:22 PM
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IFRT is a sponsoring organization for an ALA Emerging Leader. If you have questions about EL, I'm a former EL. Please feel free to reach out to me directly (johnmackfreeman@gmail.com). --- The American Library Association (ALA) is still accepting applications for the 2019 class of Emerging ...

2018-2019 Directors at Large Appointments

Posted By John Mack Freeman Jun 24, 2018 04:17 PM
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As part of the bylaws for IFRT, each Director-at-Large is supposed to be on two standing committees.  These are one year appointments, and the primary job is to be a liaison between the Board and the group to make sure that everything is working well and to take on small tasks as needed for the committee. ...

Volunteers Needed: Imroth and Program Committees

Posted By John Mack Freeman Jun 12, 2018 12:02 PM
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Good afternoon everyone, We are still looking for some people to volunteer for appointments to the Imroth and Program committees for 2018-2019. Additionally, we are looking for chairs for these two committees. You can find out more about the two committees below: Immroth Award Committee - This ...

IFRT Liaisons

Posted By John Mack Freeman May 17, 2018 03:18 PM
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If you are currently serving as liaison to or from IFRT from another body within ALA, please let me know by Friday, June 1. We want to include this information in the new IFRT Handbook at to make appointments to different groups as needed. You can respond by either replying to this discussion inside ...

Last Call for Volunteer Applications for 2018-2020 Committee Posts!

Posted By John Mack Freeman May 17, 2018 08:57 AM
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Hello everyone! We are currently in the process of making IFRT Committee appointments to begin in July 2018 and run through Annual Conference in June 2020. If you have not yet put in your committee application, it's not too late! Volunteer today: http://www.ala.org/CFApps/volunteer/form.cfm We ...