About this Blog

Welcome fellow librarians!

The following blog is a project for a graduate level course titled: Information Ethics with Dr. Akin. Throughout my posts, I explore the topic of Intellectual Freedom in academic libraries.

Even though our society has made giant steps in the area of freedom of information, we still have a long way to go. People are still trying to make certain resources censored to the public. As you can see, I used the word censor. This project taught me that censorship is the antonym of intellectual freedom and it's biggest threat. Unfortunately, like in any super hero movie, censorship is the villain in this story. A story that features librarians as its main characters. An infographic posted on this website shows the percent of censorship incidents by type of libraries, and academic libraries scored a 3%; it should be zero.

As librarians, we must protect the flow of freedom of information at all costs. It's the foundation our country is built upon. Freedom of information equals to democracy, and democracy is one of the core values of librarianship. 

Sincerely,

Pearl Bookman, a future academic librarian that starts in September 1st :) 

Me chilling at my favorite spot