Intellectual Freedom Challenges Survey
Libraries have a core responsibility to safeguard and facilitate access to constitutionally protected expressions of knowledge, imagination, ideas, and opinion, including those which some individuals and groups consider unconventional, unpopular or unacceptable…
Libraries provide, defend and promote equitable access to the widest possible variety of expressive content and resist calls for censorship and the adoption of systems that deny or restrict access to resources.
As part of our commitment to intellectual freedom, CFLA-FCAB supports the Intellectual Freedom Challenges Survey (formerly known as the Annual Challenges Survey) of Canadian libraries. The survey creates a national snapshot of the nature and outcome of challenges to intellectual freedom in publicly-funded Canadian libraries. By documenting and reporting these incidents, Canadian libraries demonstrate their commitment to public accountability and institutional transparency.
You can complete the survey here.
(Note: Prior to 2016, the Intellectual Freedom Challenges Survey (formerly known as the Annual Challenges Survey) was conducted under the auspices of the Canadian Library Association).
Association (CLA). This fund provides up to $5,000 in financial assistance to public libraries serving populations under 29,999, or libraries that would encounter undue financial hardship when defending intellectual freedom.
