HEADQUARTERS JUN 131991 JJB.BARl

No. 32 Summer 1991

. In With the IF Kids ttave Rights. LAureen Drapp, Chair, Membership Too! Promotion Committee Christopher F. Bowen, Chair, IFRT Mark your calendars now for the Third Annual Get to Know Intellectual Coming to Atlanta? Don't miss the Freedom reception. The date is Mon­ IFRT /IFC/Division IFC's program day, July 1, from 5:30 to 7:00 in the Kids Have Rights, Too ! The theme of Phoenix Room of the Hyatt Regency the National Conference is ''Kids Hotel in Atlanta. This is your chance to Who Read Succeed." What better meet and chat with representatives of time to consider the rights of children the Intellectual Freedom Committee, and the responsibilities of librarians the Intellectual Freedom Round Table, serving children? Freedom to Read Foundation, and Kids .. .features an attorney and two division IFC's. If you're a current or librarians. Bob Kohn, who provides prospective member of IFRT and legal counsel to several school boards Frances McDonald would like to become more involved and also serves as a member of the with intellectual freedom issues, there school board of his community, will will be forms available for indicating review the First Amendment rights of your interest. Hors d' oeuvres and a children; Frances McDonald, of the cash bar are included, so come and Library Media Department of the bring a friend! Mankato State University, will focus on selection and the issue of self­ censorship as related to children's Get Op On work; and Pat Scales, a middle school librarian and "the token librarian" on Your Soapbox! the Whittle Channel One advisory Christopher F. Bawen, Chair, IFRT ~oard, will address issues relating to library programming for children. Do _YOU want to tell your peers about an mtellectual freedom issue? Have Librarians' support and respect for you an intellectual freedom victory, a the rights of young patrons has a lot defeat, or a battle in progress to share? to do with ensuring that kids have an The IFRT Soapbox wants you! For a opportunity to read and succeed. .., second year, IFRT is sponsoring the Make a note now to attend Kids Have Soapbox-a platform from which you Rights, Too! , on Saturday, June 29, ' can express your thoughts on intellec­ from 2:00-4:00 p.m., in the Georgia tual freedom issues. This celebration of World Congress Center, 254-257 W. free speech is open to all Following Pat Scales the ~omple~on of IFRT membership busmess, wtthin specified time limits, the soapbox is yours! Listeners will be invited to respond. Come to the Soapbox on Mon~y morning, July 1, from 9:30-12:30, m the Radisson Hotel Grand Ballroom S. ' Highlights of Atlanta for I FlU fiLA Conference Visitors

Tom Budlong, Member, IFRT Johnny Mercer Museum-Located in tours, but the Capitol is open 10:00 Publications Committee the Pullen Library, Special Collec­ am- 2:00pm Saturdays and 1:00-3:00 On behalf of the intellectual freedom tions Department, Georgia State pm Sundays. Built in 1889, the community of Atlanta and Georgia, I University campus, 100 Decatur Capitol has a dome gilded in gold wish to extend a warm welcome to all Street, S.E. Ongoing exhibit celebrat­ from the North Georgia mountains, IFRT members who will be attending ing the life and works of one of site of the first gold rush in the the ALA Conference. Atlanta offers a Georgia's own songwriters. Author United States. In addition to state wealth of attractions and entertain­ of "Moon River" and "Days of Wine offices, it houses the Georgia State ments, many of which will be high­ and Roses." Open 8:30am-5:00pm Museum of Science and Industry Mondays-Fridays. Free. Within lighted in the conference program (which is rather eclectic), the Hall of and convention handouts. What walking distance downtown or exit at Flags, and Hall of Fame with busts of Georgia State MARTA Station. follows is my own personal list of famous Georgians. MART A: One favorites. On it you will find some block south of the Georgia State well known attractions as well as a Station. few that are less well known. They The World of Coca-Cola-This are listed in no particular order. exciting new museum opened only However, emphasis is on those this year. It celebrates Atlanta's own Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic attractions which are within walking contribution to world culture and Site-The district commemorates the distance of the downtown convention commerce. More than 1,000 nriginal civil rights leader and Atlanta's Black area or are easily accessible via artifacts trace the history of Coke Heritage. Contains Dr. King's birth MART A, our public transportation using state-of-the-art technology and home, his tomb and historic Ebenezer system. I hope that you will enjoy original commercials and advertising Baptist Church. Connects to the your time in Atlanta, home of the art. Conclude your visit with a free Sweet Auburn District, the thriving 1996 Olympic Centennial Games! tasting of numerous soft drink flavors center of black enterprise and culture produced by the company around the from the 1890's to through the 1940's. world. Located adjacent to Under­ 449 Auburn Avenue. Tours 10:00 am- ground Atlanta at 55 Martin Luther 5:00pm daily. For complete tour High Museum at Georgia-Pacific­ King Drive. Open 10:00 am-9:30pm information call524-1956. MARTA: This is a stunning little two gallery Mondays-Saturdays; noon-6:00pm Bus #31 (Auburn Avenue/MLK) branch of the High Museum, our Sundays. Reservations are recom­ from Five Points or Edgewood/ main art museum and is located in mended. Adults, $2.50; seniors $2.00; Candler Park Station. the Georgia Pacific Center at 133 children 612, $1.50; under 6, free. Peachtree street across from the Central Atlanta-Fulton Public Li­ Scitrek-395 Piedmont Avenue, N.E. brary. Exhibits change frequently. A Oakland Cemetery-248 Oakland Located in the exhibition hall of the great place to get a quick fix of art if A venue. One of the city's oldest, Atlanta Civic Center. A museum of you don't have time for the main physical science devoted to scientific museum. Open Monday- Friday dating from 1850, this be~utiful . Victorian cemetery contams a fasCI­ and technological achievement. Open 11:00 am- 5:00pm. Free. 577-6940. nating collection of mausoleums and daily 10:00 am-5:00pm. Adults $6, MARTA: Adjacent to Peachtree funerary art. Includes the graves of ages 3-17 $4, children under 3 free. Center Station. many prominent Georgians including MARTA: Bus #31 (Morningside) from former governors, mayors, Civil War Five Points Station. soldiers, author Margaret Mitchell Jimmy Carter Library and and golfer Bobby Jones. Two-hour Museum- Located in a sylvan guided tours offered Mondays­ Atlanta Cyclorama-Grant Park at setting with beautiful gardens, the Fridays or a map brochure can be had Georgia and Cherokee A venues. museum highlights the main events for $1 .25 at the visitor center for 658-7625. A 100-year-old cylindrical of the Carter administration without selfguided tours. The cemetery is oil painting and multimedia presen­ being merely a shrine to the Presi­ open dawn to dusk daily. Visitor tation of the Battle of Atlanta in 1864 dent. The interactive video "Town center is open 9:00 am-5:30 pm with a three-dimensional diorama, Meeting" is a lot of fun. Located at Mondays-Fridays. MART A: Two created by the WP A, blending into One Copenhill Avenue (North blocks south on Grant Street to the painting. Also ~ th~ muse~ are Highland and Cleburne Avenues). Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive from the historic locomotive 'Texas , Open 9:00 am-4:45 pm Mondays­ King Memorial Station. participant in The Great Loc?~otive Saturdays; noon 4:45 pm. Sundays. Chase, and artifacts and exhibtts Admission is $2.50 for adults. $1.50 relating to the War Between the for seniors and free for 16 and under. Georgia State Capitol-~ashington States. Open daily 9:30am- 5:30pm. 3310296 or 3313942. MARTA: Bus #16 Street at Martin Luther King, Jr. Admission: Adults $3.50 seruors (Noble) to Cleburne Avenue from Drive. Tours available at 10:00 am $3.00, children 6-12$2, un~er 6 free. Five Points Station. and 11 :00 am and 1:00 pm and 2:00 Also located in Grant Park ts ZOO pm Mondays- Fridays. No weekend Atlanta, featuring a rain fore t where Committees Announce Award gorillas run wild and other animals in natural habitats. MARTA Bus #31 Winners (Grant Park), Bus #97 (Atlanta At the-beginning of the main intellec­ Avenue/Georgia Avenue) or Bus #32 tual freedom program, "Kids Have (Eastland) from Five Points Station. Rights, Too", the Round Table will present its two annual awards. Sylvia Turchyn, Chair of the State CNN Center-Techwood Drive and Program A ward Committee, has International Boulevard, adjacent to announced that the Oregon Intellec­ the World Congress Center. Head­ tual Freedom Clearinghouse is this quarters of the Cable News Network. year's winner of the IFRT State Forty-five minute tour~ are given on Program Award. "The Committee the hour Monday-Friday, 10:00 am- selected the Oregon Intellectual 4:00pm. See where CNN originates Freedom Clearinghouse because of its its highly rated worldwide news innovative promotion of intellectual coverage made famous during the freedom events, its creative series of Gulf War. Admission: Adults $4, intellectual freedom workshops, and Seniors and Students under 18, $2. its successful, establishment of an MARTA: Adjacent to the Omni intellectual freedom reporting Station. system," Sylvia told us. "The Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse has established itself as an excep­ The New Georgia Railroad-Atlanta tional model of successful intellectual was founded as a railroad terminus freedom coalition building," she and the excursions offered on this Mary Ginnane added. Accepting the award will be Coordinator of the Oregon Intellectual train consisting of restored passenger Mary Ginnane, the Clearinghouse's Freedom Clearinghouse. cars pulled behind a vintage steam Coordinator. locomotive help relive this history. An 18 mile circuit of Atlanta is The John Phillip Immroth Memorial offered for Adults at $15, children Award Committee has announced 2-12 $10. Runs to Stone Mountain that Christopher Merrett, Deputy Village, Georgia's Stone Mountain University Librarian at the University Park and Decatur are $12.50 for of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Republic adults, $5 for children 2-12. Special of South Africa, will be this year's dinner excursions are also offered. recipient. He has written extensively Departures from the restored Georgia about librarianship in South Africa Freight Depot (1869) which is adja­ and helped create the Library and cent to Underground Atlanta. Information Workers Organization, a 656-0768. MARTA: Two blocks south non-racist library organization, on Alabama Street from Five Points according to Committee Chair Sherry Station. Carrillo. Under difficult and often dangerous circumstances, Christo­ pher Merrett has set a standard of Wren's Nest-1050 Gordon Street, personal courage and commitment to S.W. 753-8535. The historic home of the universal right of free expression Joel Chandler Harris, author of the which serves as an inspiration for Uncle Remus stories and creator of librarians worldwide. Sanford Brer Rabbit. Contains original fur­ Berman will accept the Immroth nishings and first editions of Harris' A ward on Christopher Merrett's work. Open Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 behalf. am-4:00pm. Admission: Adults $3, Seniors and Teens $2, Children 4-12 $1. MARTA: Bus #71 (Cascade) from the West End Station.

IFRT Report is an irregular publication of the Intellectual Freedom Round Table of the American Library Association and is sent to members of the Round Table. Membership information and/ or correspondence about your subscription should be addressed to IFRT, Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. Members of the IFRT Publications Committee are Torn Budlong, Christine Miller Koontz, Beth Rile (Chair), and Paul Vermouth. Thursday, June 27 Freedom to Read Foundation 8:30 am-12:30 pm HYAT -Flemish :I- Board of Trustees 2:00 pm-5:00 pm HYAT-Flemish ... Freedom to Read Foundation 5:00 pm-6:30 pm HYAT-Italian .a Board of Trustees Reception Freedom to Read Foundation 6:30 pm-7:30 pm HYAT -Flemish -.a Orientation ~ Friday, June 28 - ..." Intellectual Freedom Committee 8:00 am-11 :00 am HYAT -Spanish ~ c IFC/IFRT /Div. IFC's Joint Program 11:30 am-12:30 pm GWCC-162W a Planning Meeting - ~ - IFRT Eli M. Oboler Award Comm. 11:30 am-12:30 pm RAD-Hickory Hill :I -n IFRT Executive Committee 2:00 pm-5:30 pm HYAT-Lancaster E ... Committee on Professional Ethics 4:30 pm-5:30 pm HYAT -Spanish :I .a c .a Saturday, June 29 a a. Intellectual Freedom Committee 8:00 am-12:30 pm HYAT-Spanish 0 IFRT Bylaws and Organization Comm. 9:00 am-11 :00 am HYAT-Cairo ---n IFRT Publications Committee 9:00 am-11 :00 am HYAT -Hong Kong a IFRT /IFC/Div. IFC's Joint Program 2:00 pm-4:00 pm GWCC~54-257W 0 "Kids Have Rights, Too" :I ...-G Sunday, June 30 3' 0 IFC/IFRT /Div. IFC's Joint Meeting 8:00 am-9:00 am GWCC-161W ... IFRT Membership Promotion Committee 9:30 am-11 :00 am HIL-Gwinnet .a Ia IFRT Coalition Building Committee 11:30 am-12:30 pm WSTN-Tower 10 :I ... Committee on Prof. Ethics Program 2:00 pm-4:00 pm GWCC-157W a "The Ethics of Vendor-Librarian .a Relationships; " a The Ethics of Job References" ... LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund 4:30 pm-5:30 pm HYAT-Board Room I Intellectual Freedom Committee 8:00 pm-10:00 pm HYAT-Falcon ~ a Hearing on Fees for Library Service :I ... a. Monday, July 1 -a LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund 8:00 am-9:00 am HYAT-Board Room :I Committee on Professional Ethics 9:00 am-12:30 pm HYAT -Spanish ... 3 IFRT Membership Meeting & Program 9:30 am-12:30 pm RAD-Grand Ballrm a .a "Get up on Your Soapbox" .a IFC & AAP /FtRC Joint Program 2:00 pm-4:00 pm WSTN-Plaz "Challenged Books, Blurred Boundaries: Ballrm South ... What's? Appropriate for Kids to Read :I-· to Succeed?" Ia IFC & AAP /FtRC Joint Meeting 4:30 pm-5:30 pm HYAT-Cairo ... IFRT Third Annual Get to Know 5:30 pm-7:00 pm HYAT-Phoenix Intellectual Freedom Reception IFC & AAP /FtRC Joint Meeting Dinner 5:30 pm-8:00 pm HYAT-Cairo

Tuesday, July 2 IFRT Executive Committee 11:30 am-12:30 pm HYAT-Austrian Intellectual Freedom Committee 2:00 pm-5:30 pm HYAT -Flemish

Additional Conference Highlights: Key: Monday, July 1 GWCC-Georgia World Congress Center LIT A President's Program 2:00 pm-4:00 pm MAR-Marquis HYAT -Hyatt Regency Atlanta "The Electronic Bill of Rights" Ballroom 1&2 HIL-Atlanta Hilton & Towers MAR-Marriott Marquis LOS Program-"Monterey Park, CA: 2:00 pm-4:00 pm HYAT-Falcon RAD-Radisson Hotel A Case Study in Access, Diversity, WSTN-Westin Peachtree and Control" Full criteria and nomination forms are lmmroth Award "ominations available from the Office for Intellec­ Sought for Eli M. tual Freedom, American Library Endowment Association, 50 East Huron Street, Christopher F. Bowen, Chair, IFRT Oboler Memorial Chicago, IL 60611. Deadline for submissions is December 1,1991. The First, the good news: we are not asking selection committee includes Enid for a dues increase. Next, the bad news: Award Ezrin, Gunnar Knutson, Debbie we are asking for money. Finally, the The Eli M. Oboler Award Committee Tenofsky, and Anne Marie Allison, best news: we are asking for a very of IFRT is seeking nominations for the Chair. good cause. 1992 Award. The Award recognizes the best published work in the area of We need your support to build an Intellectual Freedom. This is a biennial endowment fund for the John Phillip award that includes a certificate of Immroth Memorial Award.·This award recognition and $1,500. The prize is was named in honor of the founding funded by HBW Associates, Inc., Chair of IFRT, a staunch defender of library consultants and planners. In Basket First Amendment rights. It is awarded Eli M. Oboler was the prolific and Beth B. Rile, Chair, Publications each year to recognize an individual or Committee a group who has demonstrated eloquent author of .hundreds of articles, extraordinary courage in defending reviews, and books. In naming the Fran McDonald is working on putting these rights. Some of winners have award for him, the Round Table together the program for the 1992 spent their much of their lifetimes commemorates Oboler' s service to the conference in San Francisco. Her topic fighting for the cause of intellectual library profession as university librar­ will be 'Witches and Devils in the freedom. Other winners were librar­ ian at Idaho State University, longtime Library: Legitimate Resources or a ians-like you and me--who saw a member of the ALA Council, President Demonic Force? The Right to Know." threat to these freedoms and rose to the of the Pacific Northwest and Idaho 11 In the January /February 1991 issue of occasion. All the winners are people Library Associations, and champion Ohio Libraries, the Ohio Library Asso­ who have actively worked to preserve of intellectual freedom," who IIde­ ciation reported on responses to its our First Amendment freedoms. manded the dismantling of all barriers to freedom of expression." Legislative Policy Questionnaire. The The Award consists of a citation and a first question dealt with appropriate $500 prize. At present, funding for the Works considered for the award can be legislative approaches to solving Award comes from the IFRT budget. articles (including review articles), a Ohio's lack of a library confidentiality That means we pay for it with our series of thematically connected law. 44% of those who responded dues. The Endowment Fund will articles, books or manuals published believed that such a law should require provide the support for the Award, on the local, state, or national level. a hearing before library records could while freeing the amount now used to Criteria for the award include: be released to law enforcement person­ nel. 30% of the members who an­ fund the Award for other laudable • a focus on one or more issues, swered felt that a subpoena be required IFRT uses. Why not get corporate events, questions, or controversies in before such records could be released. sponsorship for this award? We will the area of intellectual freedom; certainly accept donations, but the 17% favored a search warrant be Immroth Award is named for a man, • topics demonstrably relevant to the required. 6% would release records to not a company. It is the first Award concerns and needs of members of police officers without a hearing, but established by IFRT, and as such, is our the library community; require some judicial action before special concern, developed and turning them over to other parties. fostered by the members of IFRT. The • publication within the two-year Only 4% said that the Ohio Library period ending in December of 1991. Award recognizes the efforts of people. Association should not pursue legisla­ It is appropriate that this Award be The award will be presented at the tion on this sensitive topic. funded by those of us who believe in 1992 ALA Annual Conference. Want to know more about state library the cause and who are part of the laws? Herbert N. Foerstel's book struggle for these freedoms-the The biennial award was last presented Surveillance in the Stacks: The FBI's membership of the Intellectual Free­ at the 1990 Annual Conference in Library Awareness Program contains a dom Round Table. If each member of Chicago to the Missouri Association of chapter on this topic which provides a IFRT contributes $5, the Endowment School Librarians for the Spring, 1988 succinct overview that many librarians will be a reality. If you are willing to Edition of Media Horizons, edited by will find useful. (New York: Green­ help, please do it now. Send your check Aileen Helmick and Floyd Pentlin. wood Press, 1991. LCCN 90-38419, payable to the Immroth Endowment Nominated works must be submitted ISBN 0-313-26715-4. No. 266 in the to ... in triplicate to: series Contributions in Political Anne E. Levinson Anne Marie Allison, Chair Science, ISSN 0147-1066). IFRT Staff Liaison Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award Zoia Hom of Oakland, California Immroth Endowment Committee (mentioned in the Foerstel book) has Intellectual Freedom Round Table Director of Libraries received the POI Librarian Award from American Library As&ociation University of Central Florida the Northern California Chapter of the 50 E. Huron Street P.O. Box 25000 Society of Professional Joumalists. Chicago, IL 60611 Orlando, FL 32816. Although the number of committee If you know good workers who need IFRT Volunteer slots is limited, there are other tasks a committee appointment, but are too that need to be done and IFRT might shy to submit their own names, tell Workers tleeded use your services in ways other than me about them also. a committee assignment. Tell me Fran McDonald, Vice-Chair,/Chair-Elect Remember, a committee assignment your interests or where you are means attending Midwinter and Spring is the time chairs make willing to serve. If you have an idea committee appointments and other about something you think IFRT Annual Conference and completing the assignments for IFRT. If you want should be doing, tell me about that work assigned to you. That's all. Oh, there is a limit to how much your name included in the list of also. If you provide a formal proposal people interested in serving IFRT and and the IFRT Executive Committee work you are allowed to do. Three committees is the limit, or an office the cause of intellectual freedom, let agrees that the proposal is reason­ and a committee, or council and a me know immediately. I have a fist able, you might find yourself with an committee, or some combination of full of leftover names from Chris assignment! However, don't let the the above. See the Handbook of Bowen, current IFRT Chair, but I threat of an assignment deter you if Organization for accurate information need to know whether you are still you are an idea person and don't about ALA volunteer labor laws! interested. Even if you sent your have time to follow up. If we like name to Chris Bowen last year, send what you suggest, we'll find someone Please volunteer to: it again, to me! to do it. This is like writing grant Fran McDonald, IFRT Chair-Elect, proposals. Although we don't have 0~, be sure to attend the Third Rt 1 Box 173, Kasota, MN 56050 Annual Get to Know Intellectual money to give away, we do provide Freedom Reception on Monday, fame! July 1, 1991, from 5:3-7:00 p.m. in the Hyatt Phoenix Room-forms for indicating your interest will be available.

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