Alberta public libraries are facing a direct challenge to three of their most fundamental values – intellectual freedom, inclusiveness, and serving the needs of everyone in their communities.
CFE has prepared a Toolkit of information and resources to help Alberta’s public libraries deal effectively with the province’s demand to impose censorship. Additional information and resources for libraries will be added to the Toolkit on a regular basis.
Alberta library staff and boards face a serious dilemma. How should their libraries respond to the provincial government's unprecedented steps to override a long and unblemished tradition of local governance of Alberta’s public libraries which began 119 years ago?
