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The American Library Association (ALA) is seeking a Director for the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom. The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom implements ALA policies on intellectual freedom, embodied in the Library Bill of Rights. The ALA OIF works with ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC) to recommend, develop and maintain a comprehensive intellectual freedom program for ALA, and to educate librarians and the public about the nature and importance of intellectual freedom. OIF’s activities include providing information to individuals and organizations facing intellectual freedom challenges; planning and promoting initiatives that promote intellectual freedom, privacy and free access to information, including Banned Books Week; and, developing and implementing other national initiatives, such as the National Conversation
on Privacy. The Director, ALA OIF, also serves as the Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, an allied 501(c)(3) organization with an elected Board of Directors, which participates in litigation dealing with freedom of speech and of the press, and allocates and disburses grants to individuals and groups for the purpose of aiding them in such litigation. ALA OIF is also the secretariat for the LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund, which provides support to librarians who are, in the Trustees’ opinion, denied employment rights or discriminated against on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, age, disability, or place of national origin; or, denied employment rights because of defense of intellectual freedom. The ALA/OIF Director has both an external and internal leadership responsibility. S/he is a principal repre-
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sentative of ALA to organizations that support intellectual freedom, open access to information and privacy. The ALA OIF Director has overall responsibility for the operational and fiscal management of ALA/OIF, under the general supervision of the Senior Associate Executive Director, ALA. S/he supervises a staff of 4.5 FTE (plus 1 FTRF) and is responsible for an operating budget of $750,000. The director is responsible for advising on ALA plans and preparing recommendations on priorities, programs and other issues; meets regularly with other ALA managers; and communicates, cooperates and coordinates ALA/OIF activities with those of other ALA units. The ALA/OIF Director belongs to the Member Programs and Services Team, including the executive directors of the eleven ALA divisions; directors of ALA program offices, Conference Services
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