Intellectual Freedom Committee
Massachusetts
IF Programming. IF Materials. Grey Literature.
Please look into developing intellectual freedom programming and materials
for our public library reference desk department in Cambridge about
intellectual freedom and grey literature.
Deflecting. Delay. Denial.
Our Reference Desk Department deflected, delayed, denied access to our
municipal public documents.
Information policies. Presentation of services.
Intellectual freedom programming and materials for our Massachusetts
libraries needs to be included in the presentation of our library services
for there are many information policies to be made more clear to our front
line library staff and our library users.
Minutes. The last public board meeting.
For example, ask for your favorite public libraries' boards' public
meetings' minutes to date. With good access to the last and previous to last
public meetings' minutes of our library board our reference desk department
should have no difficulty like any routine reference enquiry for archival
material.
Collective bargaining advocacy.
It's a matter also of concern to collective bargaining unions' advocates or
members that they can get access to board minutes readily without any
intimidating runaround.
A contradictory practice within a good model.
It's ironic that our public library in other respects is a model of
intellectual freedom. It is the case that a such a good model can in the
daily routine have problematical practices that curtail intellectual
freedom.
Cc:
Reference Desk Department Cambridge Public Library
http://www.cambridgema.gov/%7Ecpl/forms/refquest.cfm
Intellectual Freedom Committee
Massachusetts
tparise at bpl.org
http://www.masslib.org/sectionsandcommittees/intellectualfreedom.htmhttp://www.masslib.org/new/sectionsandcommittees/intellectualfreedom.htm
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