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What is the ALSC Intellectual Freedom Committee? 

In a recent ALSC blog post, we got to know Eric Stroshane, ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom Assistant Director for Member Services. If you’d like to know more about censorship and the resources available if your library is facing a book challenge, it’s certainly worth checking out.  But what is Intellectual Freedom, and why does ALSC have its own Intellectual Freedom Committee?  Here’s the definition of Intellectual Freedom, according to ALA:  Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored.  The charge of the ALSC Intellectual Freedom Committee is as follows:  To serve as a liaison between the division and the ALA Intellectual Freedom committee and all other groups within the association concerned…