C&CS Presents: Academic Freedom for Academic Librarians: Do We Have It, and How Do We Know? Scheduled for March 13 at 1pm EST, Noon CST

C&CS Presents

Academic Freedom for Academic Librarians:

Do We Have It, and How Do We Know?

Presented by Danya Leebaw and Alexis Logsdon

March 13 at 1pm EST, noon central

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In this session, Danya Leebaw and Alexis Logsdon will discuss the landscape of academic freedom for academic librarians. Many academic librarians think that we are protected by academic freedom policies, but is that really true? We conducted a survey in 2018, collecting information from hundreds of librarians on their experiences with academic freedom. In this session, we will highlight key findings, including how academic freedom experiences correlate to socioeconomic identities and job status. We will also offer concrete suggestions for exploring your own existing academic freedom protections and ways to advocate for stronger ones.

Danya Leebaw

Danya Leebaw is the Social Sciences & Professional Programs Director at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Prior to this position, she was a social sciences librarian at Carleton College and a business librarian at Emory University. She earned her MLIS at the University of Pittsburgh and her BA in History from Grinnell College.

Alexis Logsdon

Alexis Logsdon is the Humanities Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Before Minnesota, she served as a research and instruction librarian at Macalester College, and in a variety of adjunct and temporary librarian positions prior to that. She holds an MLIS from UW Milwaukee, an MA in English from UC Berkeley, and a BA in English from the City College of New York (CUNY).

C&CS would like to thank the CRD and PaLA for continued support of our initiative, which is paid for in part by membership dues. If you are not a PaLA member but are a student or active librarian in Pennsylvania, consider joining PaLA!