From the Editor

Doug Archer

As you will quickly discover, this issue is a bit shorter than the last several; it is our first quarterly issue. Well, OK. We said that in the last issue. However, this is the first issue to follow a previous issue after only three months. It is mostly composed of information concerning the upcoming (next week's) ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.

If you will be attending, we hope it will help you wade through the ocean of choices available at every annual meeting. If you will not be attending, we hope it will give you a taste of what IFRT is up to and alert you to intellectual freedom issues before the Association -- to be reported in the August issue.

Recent issues have contained favorite IF quotations as an occasional feature. This issue contains an article by Martin Marty (a featured speaker at the main IF program in Chicago) documenting one of the most frequently used and paraphrased quotes of the 20th century, "First they came for..." by Martin Neimoller.

To further whet your appetite for our main program, Carolyn Caywood has contributed a handout on religious freedom prepared for the League of Women Voters in Virginia.

Reports, articles, news, columns, reviews related to intellectual freedom are always welcome and may be sent to the editor or any member of the Publication Committee.

If you are not a member of the IFRT but have somehow stumbled upon our report and are interested, join us. Just go to "How to Join the Intellectual Freedom Round Table". Only fifteen bucks for a very good cause.