The American
Library Association (ALA) Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) is seeking nominations for its 2014 Eli M. Oboler
Memorial Award. The biennial award is presented for the best published work in
the area of intellectual freedom and consists of $500 and a citation.
Nominations will be accepted through Dec. 1, 2013.
The award was named
for Eli M. Oboler, the extensively published Idaho State University
librarian known as a “champion of intellectual freedom who demanded the
dismantling of all barriers to freedom of expression.” Works to be
considered for the award may be single articles (including review pieces), a
series of thematically connected articles, books or manuals published on the
local, state or national level in English or English translation. The work must
have been published within the two-year period ending the December prior to the
ALA Annual Conference at which it is granted. The 2014 award is for work
published between 2012 and 2013.
The Oboler nomination form
is available on the ALA website. Nominations
and supporting evidence should be sent to: Shumeca Pickett, ALA, 50 E.
Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 312-280-4220 or 800-545-2433, ext.
4220. Fax: 312-280-4227. Email: spickett@ala.org.
The Intellectual
Freedom Round Table (IFRT) provides a forum for the discussion of activities,
programs and problems in intellectual freedom of libraries and librarians;
serves as a channel of communications on intellectual freedom matters; promotes
a greater opportunity for involvement among the members of the ALA in defense
of intellectual freedom; promotes a greater feeling of responsibility in the
implementation of ALA policies on intellectual freedom.
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