Youth Services News [Nmlibs] Register Now - NMLA Spring Symposium - April 14

Thu Mar 9 12:46:26 MST 2023

Excuse the cross-postings. 

Thank you

Julia Kelso

Director, Vista Grande Public Library

14 Avenida Torreon (next to El Dorado Community School)

7 Avenida Vista Grande, B-7 #192

Santa Fe, NM 87508

www.vglibrary.org

"Witches took the view that they helped society in all kinds of ways which
couldn't easily be explained, but which would become obvious if they stopped
doing them and it was worth 6 pence and one half-penny not to find out what
these were." The Science of the Discworld: The Globe" Terry Pratchett et.
al.

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

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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

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 <mailto:cassandra.osterloh at dca.nm.gov>  

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