Beginning in 2010, WLA and the Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association (WEMTA) are joining together to give the annual intellectual freedom award formerly sponsored by SIRS/Proquest.
This award recognizes the contribution of an individual or group who has actively promoted intellectual freedom in Wisconsin. It will be given by a joint WLA/WEMTA Intellectual Freedom Award Committee.
The award is given based on the following criteria:
- Role in actively promoting intellectual freedom in their sphere of influence and beyond
- Degree to which an individual or group exemplifies the spirit of intellectual freedom; and
- Efforts to promote intellectual freedom and challenge censorship.
For more information about the award please see the application information or contact the chair of the WLA Intellectual Freedom Roundtable.
Beginning in 2010, funding for the award is generously provided by TeachingBooks.net and the Center for Information Policy Research and the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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2010 Award Recipient
Dr. Robert Smiley, Waunakee Community School District
Previous WLA/WEMTA Intellectual Freedom Award Recipients
(formerly the WLA SIRS/Proquest Award)
2009: staff of the West Bend Public Library
2007: Helen Adams, retired media specialist, author, advocate
2006: Dee J. Hall, reporter, Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, WI
2003: United States Senator Russell Feingold, Middleton, WI
2001: Irene Cooley, Media Specialist, Barron Senior High School, Barron, WI
2000: Dianne McAfee Hopkins, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
1999: Carolyn Winters Folke, Former Director, Bureau for Instructional Media & Technolgy, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
1998: Dr. Nicholas J. Karolides, Chalmer Davee Library, River Falls, WI
1996: Ginny Moore Kruse, Director, Cooperative Children's Book Center, Madison, WI
1995: Hales Corners Public Library, Hales Corners, WI |
