Deborah Caldwell-Stone is the Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. She works on projects "addressing censorship and privacy in the library".[1]
Deborah Caldwell-Stone | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cleveland State University, Chicago-Kent College of Law |
| Organization | American Library Association |
Education
editCaldwell-Stone received a B.A. in Mass Media Communications from Cleveland State University in 1982. In 1996, she received a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology.[2]
Career
editShe began as an attorney with Cassiday, Schade & Gloor and then worked in the Ameritech legal department.[1]
Caldwell-Stone joined the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom in June 2000. In 2009, she became the Acting, and then Deputy Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom and the Freedom to Read Foundation.[2]
Advocacy
editCaldwell-Stone has extensively discussed and written a number of articles on the Children's Internet Protection Act.[3][4]
In 2014, she participated in the National Coalition Against Censorship's 404 Day, a day meant "to bring attention to the long-standing problem of Internet censorship in public libraries and schools".[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "Front & Center with John Callaway: The USA Patriot Act - Pritzker Military Museum & Library - Chicago". pritzkermilitary.org.
- ^ a b "Deborah Caldwell-Stone named acting director of ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom". ala.org.
- ^ "Filtering and the First Amendment". American Libraries Magazine.
- ^ "Multimedia - Student Press Law Center". splc.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-14. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- ^ "404 Day Teach-In Against Censorship in Libraries and Schools". National Coalition Against Censorship. April 4, 2014. Archived from the original on February 24, 2015.
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