American Library Association (Office of Intellectual Freedom)

The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom will implement a program to equip the library workforce with the skills and knowledge to ensure that libraries both preserve and provide the broadest possible access to the cultural, artistic, historical, natural, and scientific collections entrusted to their care, and advance the role of libraries as sources of trusted information representing a range of views and ideas. The project will feature synchronous and asynchronous online and in-person learning opportunities to meet the information needs of library workers in the areas of intellectual freedom, access to information, privacy, censorship, free speech, and legal matters. The project features a Peer Learning --Train the Trainer strategy to provide access to expertise and peer support capacity within libraries and the library profession related to intellectual freedom, privacy, and the law. The program hopes to sustain and build capacity by hiring of a Program Officer to support the design and evaluation components of the program and who will have primary implementation and administration duties.