Print Page   |   Your Cart   |   Sign In   |   Join or Renew
The FTRF Blog
Blog Home All Blogs
Read the latest news about FTRF and the First Amendment in Libraries and engage with thoughtful opinions from leaders in our community on The FTRF Blog.

 

Search all posts for:   

 

Top tags: Banned Books Week  Judith Krug Memorial Fund  FTRF45  membership  BBW2014  banned books  Conable Scholarship  litigation  Roll of Honor  Media Coalition  special events  ALA Annual Conference  Barbara Jones  Board of Trustees  Carolyn Forsman  election  givingfREADom  GivingTuesday  grants  Judith Krug remembrances  Midwinter Meeting  Theresa Chmara  ALA  Annual Conference  censorship  Emily Knox  FTRF News  online learning  ACLU  Banned Websites Awareness Day 

FTRF and GSLIS at Illinois announce intellectual freedom course and scholarship opportunities

Posted By Administration, Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) are pleased to announce a partnership to offer an online graduate-level course on intellectual freedom for library and information science (LIS) students around the country. The course, in its third year, will be taught by GSLIS professor Emily Knox, who was awarded a 2015 Instructor of the Year award by the WISE (Web-based Information Science Education) consortium for the course. It is a project of the Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund.

“Intellectual Freedom and Censorship” is a 2-credit course and will meet online Tuesdays August 23–October 11, 2016. It is open to any student enrolled in an LIS degree program.  As part of the collaboration, Freedom to Read Foundation staff and volunteers will lend their expertise as guest speakers, and FTRF and ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom archival materials will be made available to students. 

“Our culture is at a tipping point, a shift in its tolerance for the First Amendment. It is imperative that today’s library students have a deep and thoughtful exposure to the value of free speech. And who better to receive it from than the 2015 WISE instructor of the year?” said James LaRue, Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom and the Freedom to Read Foundation.

“I’m excited to teach the intellectual freedom and censorship class again this Fall,” said Professor Emily Knox. “The course is one of the highlights of my semester. I, like the students, enjoy listening and learning from our weekly speakers and I love our spirited class discussions.”

 Read more HERE

Tags:  GSLIS  krug fund 

Share |
Permalink
 
News from FTRF
https://www.ftrf.org/blogpost/852091/The-FTRF-Blog?tag=GSLIS
www.ftrf.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2018-26
44279
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:RL4TVZLV4Z7HFPHZOPBAHAS3UE2RQXPI
<urn:uuid:dfd8f4ce-71e6-433f-9a2a-a2b113efc1d5>
2018-06-20T03:20:16Z
35.174.132.21
application/xhtml+xml
sha1:3A24ZTGJ7A3ESJQP4VQPUF2MCVLTTBYE
<urn:uuid:a91f320f-aa25-4013-b946-d8692ff20e99>
https://www.ftrf.org/blogpost/852091/The-FTRF-Blog?tag=GSLIS
response
<urn:uuid:e5d889bf-a4b6-453a-8e96-d489acf0c9bb>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-228-204-2.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-26
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for June 2018
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf