{"id":9240,"date":"2014-08-16T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=9240"},"modified":"2014-08-14T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:51:00","slug":"hurray-for-another-year-of-intellectual-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/hurray-for-another-year-of-intellectual-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurray for Another Year of Intellectual Freedom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALSC Intellectual Freedom Commitee members are looking forward to a third year of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/banned_book_heather.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/banned_book_heather-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"BBW 2013\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/banned_book_heather-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/banned_book_heather.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>contributing to the ALSC Blog. Our blog posts are usually scheduled for the third Saturday of the month and we have a whole pile of interesting topic ideas to work through.<\/p>\n<p>The ALSC Intellectual Freedom Committee serves as a liaison between ALSC and the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee and all other groups within ALA concerned with intellectual freedom; we advise the division on matters before the Office of Intellectual Freedom and their implication for library service to children; we make recommendations to the ALA IF Committee for changes to policies regarding library service to children; and we promote in-service and continuing education.<\/p>\n<p>This year we are planning to follow our blog posts with an intellectual freedom themed discussion on ALSC-L and we are looking at some options for intellectual freedom trainings for youth services librarians. We have a busy year ahead of us!<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hacerro@rochester.lib.mn.us\">contact me<\/a>\u00a0if you have any questions or concerns for the ALSC IF Committee. We would love to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p>Heather Acerro, ALSC Intellectual Freedom Committee Chair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALSC Intellectual Freedom Commitee members are looking forward to a third year of contributing to the ALSC Blog. Our blog posts are usually scheduled for the third Saturday of the month and we have a whole pile of interesting topic ideas to work through. The ALSC Intellectual Freedom Committee serves as a liaison between ALSC and the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee and all other groups within ALA concerned with intellectual freedom; we advise the division on matters before the Office of Intellectual Freedom and their implication for library service to children; we make recommendations to the ALA IF Committee for changes to policies regarding library service to children; and we promote in-service and continuing education. This year we are planning to follow our blog posts with an intellectual freedom themed discussion on ALSC-L and we are looking at some options for intellectual freedom trainings for youth services librarians. We have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[272,10,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-intellectual-freedom-committee","category-committees","category-intellectual-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}