IFRT ITINERARY AT ANNUAL

Thursday, 11/6/03

1:30-2:45 PM

Past NYLA/SIRS Intellectual Freedom Award winners briefly discuss the challenges they faced and provide the specifics of how to proactively handle censorship in any type of library.

Presider: Stephanie Sarnoff, Director, Scarsdale Public Library

Presenters:

¨      Fran Aveta, Corinth Elementary School, 1999 NYLA/SIRS Intellectual Freedom Award winner;

¨      Andrew Dancer III, Director of the Catskill Public Library;

¨      Robert Trudell, Former Director, Greenburgh Public Library, NYLA Past President, 1984 NYLA/SIRS Intellectual Freedom Award winner.

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IFC/IFRT Annual Meeting

Friday, 11/7/03

8:00-9:15 AM

Combined annual meeting of the Intellectual Freedom Committee and the Intellectual Freedom Roundtable

Presider: Eleanor Kuhns, Chair, Intellectual Freedom Committee

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 USA PATRIOT Act: Privacy Under AttackSaturday, 11/ 8/03

8:30-11:45 AM

A panel of experts will address what every librarian and trustee should know about the USA PATRIOT Act.

Presider: Diane Berry, Automation Consultant, Mid-York Library System

Presenters:

¨      Maurice J. Freedman, Director of the Westchester Library System, President of the American Library Association;

¨      Mark C. Rosenzweig, Director and Chief Librarian/Archivist at the Reference Center for Marxist Studies;

¨      Barry Steinhardt, Director of Technology and Liberty Program, ACLU.

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