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Proquest-SIRS State & Regional IF Award

Proquest-SIRS State & Regional IF Award. By: Mishalla Spearing. Brief Description. Sponsored by the ALA IFRT Most innovative and effective intellectual freedom project covering a state or region Programs may be one-time, one-year or ongoing/multi-year efforts

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Proquest-SIRS State & Regional IF Award

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  1. Proquest-SIRS State & Regional IF Award By: Mishalla Spearing

  2. Brief Description • Sponsored by the ALA IFRT • Most innovative and effective intellectual freedom project covering a state or region • Programs may be one-time, one-year or ongoing/multi-year efforts • The award consists of a citation and $1,000 donated by  ProQuest • Deadline December 1st

  3. Examples • statewide public relations initiative to promote awareness of IF • programmatic assistance to meet a broad-based censorship challenge • coalition building or education outreach efforts • effective reorganization or management of an IF committee

  4. Criteria • A project has been unusually successful in fundraising for the promotion of intellectual freedom efforts in the state or region. • A state committee, etc. has been unusually successful in coalition-building so that allied groups are marshaled effectively to support intellectual freedom in the state or region. • A state committee, etc. has done an exemplary PR task in promoting awareness of intellectual freedom issues in the state or region, as judged by numbers reached and/or other results. • A project has been effective in recruiting activists within and outside of librarianship to work with the state committee, etc. in intellectual freedom projects.

  5. Criteria • A structure has been conceived that markedly enhances the continuity and effectiveness of state chapter efforts in intellectual freedom. • A committee, etc. has succeeded in galvanizing to an unusual extent support for intellectual freedom within a state chapter. • A state committee, etc. has intervened with special effectiveness in an intellectual freedom crisis in the state or region.  Such intervention should, preferably, in the opinion of the committee, have resulted in a clear victory over the forces of censorship. • Projects that can be generalized to other chapters will merit special attention of the IFRT State Program Award.

  6. History • Goldsteins founded SIRS in 1977 • SIRS: a unique information subscription series • SIRS IF Award founded in 1981 • By 1999, supported more than 30 IF awards

  7. Award Cancelled? • ProQuest acquired SIRS in 2003 and continued the award • March 2010, ProQuest Marketing Manger Tim McLain: •  award information on the ProQuest web site has been taken down • the state awards discontinued • March 2010, Jonathan Kelley of ALA Office for IF confirmed that ProQuest continues to support the award • Emailed Nannette Perez for confirmation

  8. Past Award Winners • 2009 Celebrate the Freedom to Read Oregon • coalition made up of the ACLU of Oregon, the IFC of the Oregon Library Association (OLA) and the IFC of the Oregon Association of School Libraries (OASL) • its campaign increased state-wide participation in Banned Books Week by 22 percent over two years • master list of all materials challenged or banned in Oregon since 1979

  9. Past Award Winners • 2007 Connecticut John Does • honored for defending intellectual freedom when they challenged the constitutionality of National Security Letters (NSLs) and the gag provisions of NSLs issued under the USA PATRIOT Act

  10. References Cited: • ALA website, “SIRS/ProQuest Award” http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/ifrt/awardsfinal/SIRS_ProQuest_Award/sirs.cfm. Accessed Sept. 23, 2010 • ALA website, ““Celebrate the Freedom to Read” Oregon wins the SIRS/ProQuest State and Regional Achievement Award .” http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/may2009/oifproquest.cfm. May 12, 2009. Accessed Sept. 23, 2010 • ALA website, “The Connecticut John Does receive 2007 ProQuest-SIRS State and Regional Achievement Award.” http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=archive&template=/contentmanagement/contentdisplay.cfm&ContentID=154870. March 30, 2007. Accessed Sept. 23, 2010 • Norman, MeloraRanney http://emelora.typepad.com/librarystuff/2010/01/sirsproquest-maine-intellectual-freedom-awards.html. Accessed Sept. 23, 2010

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