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Wednesday, 2nd December 2009

ALA Names New Director of Office of Intellectual Freedom and Executive Director of Freedom to Read Foundation

From the Announcement:

The American Library Association (ALA) has named Barbara M. Jones its new director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom and its new executive director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, effective Dec. 14.

Jones succeeds the late Judith F. Krug, who led the office and the foundation for more than 40 years and died April 11.

Jones brings 25 years of active engagement on intellectual freedom issues to her new position. She currently serves as treasurer of the Freedom to Read Foundation. She served on the FAIFE (Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression) IFLA Standing Committee, serving as Secretary to FAIFE from 2007-2009. She was a member of the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee (1990-1994, 2001-2003) and currently serves on the IFC Privacy Subcommittee (2009). In 2004-05 (and 1986-87) she served as Chair of the Intellectual Freedom Round Table. She is currently an ACRL Legislative Advocate and has also served on state Intellectual Freedom Committees in Iowa and Minnesota. As a FAIFE trainer and expert advisor, Barbara has developed curricula and training programs, and conducted workshops internationally.

In addition, she has consulted, spoken and written extensively in the area of intellectual freedom. In 2009, she published “Intellectual Freedom in Academic Libraries” with ALA Editions. Earlier writing includes “Libraries, Access, and Intellectual Freedom: Developing Policies for Public and Academic Libraries” (ALA Editions, 1999) and a number of articles and chapters, including “Libel Tourism: What Librarians Need to Know,” for American Libraries (2009-2010).

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