Intellectual Freedom Committee

Purpose:    To provide guidance if needed to state library
associations, libraries, and librarians in the area of
intellectual freedom.

Duties:     1.  To protect freedom of access and inquiry in
libraries of the Southeast.
            2.  To contact the intellectual freedom committees of
the state associations represented in the Southeastern Library    
Association in order to explain the purpose and role of SELA      
and to obtain information on intellectual freedom issues that     
have arisen within the states.
            3.  To plan regional workshops on alternate years
from the biennial meeting of SELA.
            4.  To plan conference programming for the biennial
meeting of SELA.

History:
            This committee was appointed by Hoyt Galvin in 1964. 
It undertook immediately to see that each state represented in
the Southeastern Library Association had a corresponding
intellectual freedom committee. 
      In 1967-68 the committee concentrated on getting school and
public libraries to adopt a book selection policy approved by the
respective governing boards.  The committee has conducted some
regional workshops on intellectual freedom and has offered
conference programs on the intellectual freedom and censorship
issues.  The committee stands ready to assist the Office for
Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association and the
intellectual freedom committees of the state associations.