Nancy Branscombe and Gina Barber receive IF award

Nancy Branscombe and Gina Barber, City Councilors and Library Board Members from London, ON, are the 2008 recipients of the Award for the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada. The CLA press release clearly states that librarians were the advocates for internet filtering: The initial impetus for the London Public Library filtering plan did not…

interview with Alvin Schrader, CLA president

This month I talked to Alvin Schrader, current CLA president and professor who teaches and writes a lot about intellectual freedom. I’ve enjoyed his issues based Feliciter editorials more than the usual “as the president I went here and did this”type diary entries. This issue he writes about the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. I…