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Pinnell-Stephens, Texas Grassroots Group Win Intellectual Freedom AwardsAlaska librarian June Pinnell-Stephens and the Texas advocacy group Mainstream Montgomery County are the recipients of the 2003 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award given by the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign. Pinnell-Stephens, collections services manager for Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library, has been actively involved in intellectual freedom activities with the American Library Association, the Pacific Northwest Library Association, and the Alaska Library Association. In 1997, she chaired a group that produced Libraries: An American Value, an intellectual freedom statement adopted as policy by ALA Council in 1999. Mainstream Montgomery County, a group of more than 100 county residents and 40 high school students, was formed in 2002 in response to challenges to remove two award-winning sex-education books from the shelves of the Montgomery County (Tex.) Memorial Library System. Later, MMC was instrumental in ensuring that the library’s revised review policy required members of its reconsideration committee to have formal training in child development or work experience with the age group for which a book was intended. Both will be honored January 10 at a reception during ALA’s 2004 Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, California. The library school and Greenwood Publishing Group will cohost the event. Posted December 12, 2003. |
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