From the Editor

Doug Archer

            Welcome to the IFRT Report. This issue contains many familiar features including a report from both our Counselor and the IFRT Executive Board chair, a selected list of meetings and programs at Annual Conference of interest to readers of this newsletter and documentation from the IFRT’s upcoming conference program “Walking the Highwire: Exploring the Tension between Intellectual Freedom, Privacy, and Intellectual Property” to be held on Saturday, June 26, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m in the Orange County Convention Center, room 209 B/C. (Yes, this is a plug!)

            For a different perspective there is an essay on the “Cuban librarians issue” which was originally submitted for an MBA course in business ethics. You will also find the first installment of an new, ongoing feature, “Favorite Intellectual Freedom Quotations.” Please feel free to share your favorites with the rest of our readers by submitting them for future inclusion in this newsletter.

            At the end of the table of contents readers will find links to files which contain the complete contents of this issue. This will allow those who so choose to print the whole issue at one time. Links to pdf files of earlier issues have also been added to the homepage. These files will appear a bit strange since they were laid out to facilitate a print publication. Eventually, we would like to scan all earlier issues.

            Lastly, please consider becoming involved in the defense of intellectual freedom through the work of this organization, the Intellectual Freedom Roundtable. Membership information is available at http://www.ala.org/ala/ifrt/ifrtorg/joinifrt/joinifrt.htm.

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Doug Archer

Editor, IFRT Report

archer.1@nd.edu