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

2001 - 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!