Intellectual Freedom

WWW Resources related to intellectual freedom and censorship for libraries. Includes policy statements, lists of banned books, and links to Supreme Court cases and decisions.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/free.htm

Censorship and Intellectual Freedom Page

Annotated collection of links on a variety of topics related to censorship and intellectual freedom.
http://php.indiana.edu/~quinnjf/censor.html

American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression

Links to the Free Expression Newsletter and other sites relating to bookselling and freedom of speech.
http://www.bookweb.org/orgs/related/abffe/

Articles on Censorship: A Look at the Different Sides of the Issue

There is more than one side to any story. This is more true with censorship of the written word than with most topics. You know where you stand on this issue, but what is your opinion based on? Is it based on fact and your morals, or on other people's mo
http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/article.htm

Texas Library Association Intellectual Freedom Handbook

Practical and theoretical information on intellectual freedom, censorship, and related issues.
http://www.txla.org/pubs/ifhbk.html

A Guide To Internet Resources on Intellectual Freedom

Compiled by Gary Shimek for The Intellectual Freedom Round Table of the Wisconsin Library Association. An extensive and annotated list of resources.
http://people.msoe.edu/~shimek/if_resources_titlepage.html

Suppression of Speech by the United States Government: The Children's Internet Protection Act

Argues that the federal government attempted to engage in mass censorship by passing the Children's Internet Protection Act.
http://www.mlaforum.org/volumeI/issue1/suppression.html

South Dakota Library Association: Intellectual Freedom

Links and information on Surf Safe, the association's web safety program.
http://www.usd.edu/sdla/intellectual_freedom.html

Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression

Resources, reports, and a list of "Heroes and Villains."
http://users.rcn.com/kyp/bcfe.html

PICS, Censorship, and Intellectual Freedom FAQ

Examines intellectual freedom issues raised by the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS), a set of technical specifications developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and often used in filtering software.
http://www.w3.org/PICS/PICS-FAQ-980126.html

Libraries and Democracy

Article on how libraries can contribute to democractic traditions and values in the United States and in the international community.
http://www.michaellorenzen.com/eric/democracy.html

ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom

The Office for Intellectual Freedom is charged with implementing ALA policies concerning the concept of intellectual freedom as embodied in the Library Bill of Rights, the Associations basic policy on free access to libraries and library materials. The go
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/

ALA's The Freedom to Read Statement

The Association's policy statement on intellectual freedom and censorship.
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/ftrstatement/

ALA's Library Bill of Rights

The Associations basic policy on free access to libraries and library materials.
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/statementsif/

Information for Social Change

An activist organisation that examines issues of censorship, freedom and ethics amongst library and information workers.
http://www.libr.org/ISC/