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Have you ever felt nervous about teaching students how to research a hot-button political topic? You’re not alone. Librarians occupy a precarious position at many institutions, asked to perform similar teaching functions to classroom instructors while lacking the protections of academic freedom granted to those instructors. Come to this talk to learn how one non-faculty librarian worked to reinstate academic freedom for herself and her colleagues over the course of nearly three years. We will discuss practical “lessons learned,” such as strategies for identifying allies on campus, responding to administrators’ concerns, and making difficult compromises in order to get a policy approved, and you will take away ideas for establishing or expanding academic freedom policies as they apply to librarians at your institution.
