ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom

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The official account for the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom. Fighting book bans and censorship in libraries since 1967. ala.org/bbooks

Get Ready for Banned Books Week. Shop the ALA Store. Image shows collage of products featuring Censorship Is So 1984 artwork, including bookmarks, buttons, stickers, and posters.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards. 2025 Bravery in Literature Award Honorees. October 11 at the Bardavon, Poughkeepsie, New York. Photos of recipients: Margaret Atwood, Malinda Lo, Becky Calzada, Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, Matthew A Cherry and Vashti Harrison, John Green, and Juno Dawson. Keynote speaker: Jennifer Finney Boylan
Intellectual Freedom Awards at ALA Annual Conference 2025. Celebrating Intellectual Freedom Heroes: Skip Dye, Owen Wolfe, Illinois Library Association, Nate Coulter, Shannon M. Oltmann. Keynote NIKKOLAS SMITH (The History of We, The Artivist, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water). Presented by Freedom to Read Foundation, University of Illinois School of Information Science, Intellectual Freedom Round Table. June 27, 7:30 pm, Philadelphia Marriott, Salon E. bit.ly/IFawards2025
Intellectual Freedom Round Table 2025 Intellectual Freedom Awards. Gerland Hodges Chapter Relations Award: Illinois Library Association. John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award: Nate Coulter. Elim M. Obler Memorial Award: Shannon M. Oltmann
Representing Libraries and the First Amendment: Government Speech, Public Forums, and the Right to Read. May 21, 2025. 1pm ET. American Bar Association. Rule of Law in America CLE. Photograph of a woman reading in a library.
Intellectual Freedom Round Table. Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award. Deadline extended to March 1, 2025