Midwinter Report: ALA's OIF Celebrates 30 Years

Staff -- Library Journal, 2/8/1999

The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) celebrated its 30th anniversary with a gala dinner for 550 people, with founding director Judith Krug pictured and quoted in prominent Philadelphia Inquirer coverage. Thirty years ago, she noted, only 12 state ALA chapters had Intellectual Freedom Committees (IFC); now, all have them.

Also, Mainstream Loudoun, the citizens' group that successfully challenged its library's policy of blanket filtering, was honored with the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award--presented by Greenwood Publishing Group and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign GSLIS.