Adam Webb, Chair
Executive Director, Garland County Library
1427 Malvern Ave
Hot Springs, AR 71901
501-547-8226
awebb@gclibrary.com

John McGraw	Faulkner County Library	john@fcl.org
Adam Webb	Garland County Library	awebb@gclibrary.com
Leslie Switzer	Crossett High School	leslie.switzer@crossettschools.org
Betsy Fisher	Clark County Library	CCL.Director@arkansas.gov
Allie Stevens Gosselink	Calhoun County Library	calcolib@gmail.com
Suzanne Adams	Bella Vista Public Library	suzmarieb@gmail.com
Vanessa Adams	Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library	vanessa@libraryinjonesboro.org
Michelle Washington	Pine Bluff Jefferson County Library System	mwashington@pineblufflibrary.org
Abby Miller	Springdale Public Library	amiller@springdalelibrary.org
Hope Rider	Faulkner County Library	hope@fcl.org
Rebecca Kidder	Saline County Library	rebeccak@salinecountylibrary.org
Laren Anderson	Mabee-Simpson Library, Lyon College	laren.anderson@lyon.edu
Carolyn Filippelli	Boreham Library, UAFS	Carolyn.Filippelli@uafs.edu
Amy Shipman	Lakeside High School	amy_shipman@lakesidesd.org
Molly Quinn	Fayetteville Public Library	mquinn@faylib.org

Mission & Responsibilities

The Intellectual Freedom Committee is concerned with proposed or actual restrictions of Intellectual freedom imposed by individuals, committees, or administrative authorities on library materials or on the selection judgments, order procedures or administrative practices of librarians.

The Committee is concerned with proposed or enacted legislation at the national, state, local, and school district levels which might place library collections in jeopardy, or which might restrict, prejudice or interfere with free and unbiased selection, acquisition and circulation of library materials, and other professional activities of librarians, or which might otherwise restrict the basic concept of the freedom of inquiry.

The Committee is concerned with the continuing education of the library community (including librarians, library boards, and the general public) in understanding and accepting the philosophy and the professional practice inherent in the Library Bill of Rights and the interpretations issued from the American Library Association, the ALA Freedom to Read Statement, the Statement of Professional Ethics, 1981, access to Resources and Services in the School Media Program: An interpretation of the Library Bills of Rights (adopted 1986, amended 1990), and the Freedom to View statement.

ArLA Freedom Minute eNewsletter

Previous Committee Chairs

2020 - Shenise McGhee
2019 - Shenise McGhee
2018 - John Paul Myrick
2017 - John Paul Myrick
2016 – John Paul Myrick
2015 – Freddy Hudson

Helpful Links

ALA Office For Intellectual Freedom – http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=oif
Freedom to Read Foundation – http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/affiliates/relatedgroups/freedomtoreadfoundation/index.cfm
LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund – http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/affiliates/relatedgroups/merrittfund/merritthumanitarian.cfm