Posts Tagged ‘Judith Krug’

Intellectual Freedom in the News

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Judith Krug, founder of Banned Books Week and director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom since its founding in 1967, dies of stomach cancer at age 69. Go here for more blog posts remembering Judith.

Amazon’s sales ranking “glitch” is called an “embarassing cataloging error.”

Google Book settlement under “legal assault.”

Supreme court rules that speech is not constitutionally protected for public employees; the decision could “silence professors.”

Associated Press chairman “mad as hell” at websites that link to AP material, calls their profit a violation of fair use.

Rockefeller University Press freezes 2010 journal prices at 2009 rates.

- compiled by X. Avalos