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The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) is accepting nominations for the 2022 . Do you know of a state chapter or organization that has:

• bravely defended the freedom to read or access to information;
• successfully promoted intellectual freedom issues;
• or demonstrated exemplary coalition-building efforts?

The Gerald Hodges Award recognizes an intellectual freedom-focused organization that has developed a strong multi-year, ongoing program or a single, one-year project that exemplifies support for intellectual freedom, patron confidentiality and anti-censorship efforts. This award consists of a citation and $1,000. Past recipients include the Missouri Library Association (2021) and the . Learn more about past recipients, programs and projects on the .

The award is named after Gerald Hodges, who joined the 91´«Ã½ staff in 1989 as director of membership services and the . Hodges was the associate director of communications and marketing at his death in 2006, but intellectual freedom and chapter relations were still his passions. A charter member of the , he willed a portion of his estate to support 91´«Ã½'s intellectual freedom efforts. Memorial contributions in recognition of Hodges came from many friends, colleagues and 91´«Ã½ chapters following the establishment of the Gerald Hodges Fund.

The award is sponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Round Table of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½). An and are available. The deadline for nominations is January 1, 2022.

Members of the Coalition Building Committee are: Chair Ray James, Jeremy Brett, Isabel Klein, and Jennifer Steele.

The provides a forum for the discussion of activities, programs and problems in intellectual freedom of libraries and librarians; serves as a channel of communications on intellectual freedom matters; promotes a greater opportunity for involvement among the members of the 91´«Ã½ in defense of intellectual freedom; promotes a greater feeling of responsibility in the implementation of 91´«Ã½ policies on intellectual freedom.

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