The American Library Association held its 147th Annual Conference at McCormick Place in Chicago from June 22-27.  I was among the 15,842 attendees.  That's more than last year (Washington, DC: 13,900) but not back to pre-pandemic (Chicago, 2017: 22,702).  




Badge ribbons 2023

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I attended the Freedom to Read Foundation board meeting on Thursday as liaison for the Retired Members Round Table.  FTRF and the Office of Intellectual Freedom have been busy dealing confronting threats to intellectual freedom -- book bans in school and public libraries, and curriculum, inquiry, and tenure in colleges and universities.

I went ...

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