[Nmtriblibs] Register Now - NMLA Spring Symposium - April 14

[Osterloh, Cassandra, DCA]

New Mexico Library Association
Spring Symposium - Intellectual Freedom
April 14, 2023
9:00 am - 4:15 pm

Free, Online via Zoom, Open to all!
Listen to and discuss various intellectual freedom issues.
Come for one session, two, or more!


Register in Advance
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrd-qpqzwrGdOqm9uPNah6qha_SQ20mdHg

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.


Schedule
9:00 am – 9:15 am: Welcome


9:15 am – 10:30 am: Indigenous Intellectual Property (stay tuned for more info)

Presenters: Dr. Jane Anderson, Local Contexts Co-Director, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies, New York University; Corrie Roe, Local Contexts Institution Outreach Manager, NYU; and Felicia Garcia, Local Contexts Community Outreach Manager, NYU


10:30 am – 10:45 am: Break


10:45 am – 12:00 pm: Library Challenges in a Shifting Landscape
The panelists will discuss censorship and intellectual freedom challenges that have impacted their communities, libraries, and careers. People and groups that are challenging intellectual freedom issues in libraries work around laws, policies, and procedures to cause public disruptions that threaten the safety, wellbeing, and careers of library workers. How should we work to shore up this shifting landscape? The session will include information on ways you can work to prepare for intellectual freedom challenges in your community and there will be plenty of time for questions and answers.

Panelists: Valerie Nye, Library Director at Santa Fe Community College; Tom Taylor, Director of the Andover Public Library (Kansas); and Sean Anderson, Former Assistant Director, ImagineIF Libraries in Flathead County, Montana

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Lunch (open Zoom space will be available for shared discussions, as desired)





1:30 pm – 2:45 pm: Should You Trust Wikipedia? Maintaining Information Quality in an Encyclopaedia Anyone Can Edit

How does an open project that anyone can edit maintain some level of accuracy and resist the introduction of hoaxes and misinformation? And how does Wikipedia manage to do this without paid editorial staff? Wikipedia works thanks to a community of volunteers and a system of content-related and behavior-related norms and policies that the community enforces. But the quality of content varies between articles and is heavily dependent on the number of eyes on a given article. In this presentation I will discuss how these policies and processes work, when they fail, and how to become a more informed consumer of Wikipedia content.

Presenter: Ian Ramjohn, Senior Wikipedia Expert
Ian’s work supports students, faculty, and professionals as they learn to improve content on Wikipedia. With more than 20 years of experience teaching in higher education and almost two decades of experience as a volunteer Wikipedia contributor, he found vocation and avocation intersect in his role at Wiki Education, where he supports learners and helps build curriculum and training resources to support them. As a Wikipedian since 2004 and an administrator since 2005, he is an expert on Wikipedia’s history, processes, and culture. His contributions to Wikipedia focus primarily on the history and culture of Trinidad and Tobago, and on topics related to biology, ecology, and sustainability.

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm: Break


3:00 pm – 4:15 pm: Legally Speaking: Freedom to Read
Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation and attorney Deborah Caldwell-Stone will share an overview of the ways the First Amendment protects patron access to information, and the role current and historic cases have had in protecting librarians while serving their community members. She will also review minors’ rights under the First Amendment along with examples of how the courts have addressed challenges to materials in schools, including definitions for terms such as obscenity, which frequently is used as the basis for materials challenges. Having an awareness of the law, and the ways we uphold access with well-designed policies, can help librarians prepare for challenges.

Presenter: Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation
For over twenty years Ms. Caldwell-Stone has worked closely with library professionals and library trustees on a wide range of intellectual freedom issues related to library service in the United States. She has served on the faculty of the ALA-sponsored Lawyers for Libraries and Law for Librarians workshops and is a contributor to the 10th edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual. She has contributed articles on law, policy, and intellectual freedom to American Libraries and other publications.




Cassandra E. Osterloh, MLS, MA (Cherokee Nation)
Pronouns: she/her/hers

[cid:babd19d3-dd58-4907-992c-449e40d40e27]Tribal Libraries Program Coordinator
Library Development Bureau, New Mexico State Library
1209 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe NM 87507

505-264-2427 (cell)
505-476-9764 (office)
cassandra.osterloh at dca.nm.gov
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