IFRT Programs and Preconferences
The IFRT plans and conducts at least one program for each ALA Annual Conference. The program is cosponsored by the ALA Intellectual Freedom Round Table, Intellectual Freedom Committee, and Division Intellectual Freedom Committees.
2009 Programs
2009 Preconference
Privacy: Who Do You Trust?
Thursday, July 9th, 1:30 to 4:30pm
Carnegie Room, ALA Headquarters
2009 Awards Reception
Friday, July 10th, 12:30 to 1:30pm
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Pullman Room
2233 South Martin Luther King Drive
Chicago, IL
Libraries, Librarians and America's War on Sex
Saturday, July 11th, 1:30 to 3:30pm
McCormick Place Convention Center
Room W-178a
What Makes Tango So Scary?
Serving Your Whole Library Population, Intellectual Freedom, and Censorship of LGBT Children's Books
Sunday, July 12th, 1:30 to 5:30pm
McCormick Place Convention Center
Room W-194a
(IFRT is co-sponsoring this Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table program with ALSC and SRRT)
Past Programs
2008
Freedom of Expression (TM)
2007 Preconference
Celebrating the Library Bill of Rights
2007
Scientific and Health Information: The Threat Posed by Political Interference
2006
Acknowledging Native Perspectives on the American Experience
2005
We've Got Your Back: Librarians and Teens Speak Out on Intellectual Freedom. Presented by IFRT, cosponsored by YALSA, and Religion and Intellectual Freedom: Divine Revelation in the Marketplace of Ideas
2004
Walking the High Wire: Exploring the Tension among Intellectual Freedom, Privacy, and Intellectual Property
2003
Free Expression Knows No Borders?
2002
Not in Front of the Children: 'Indecency,' Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth
David Brin on the Transparent Society
2000
Freedom of Expression Versus Tolerance: Exploring the Limits
1999
Kids Have Rights/Parents Have Responsibilities/Librarians Have Ulcers!
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