Longtime ALA Intellectual Freedom Leader Judith Krug Dies
Norman Oder & Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 4/13/2009 * Was 40-year Office for Intellectual Freedom veteran * Founded Banned Books Week Judith Fingeret Krug, longtime director of American Library Association's (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom <http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/index.cfm> (OIF) and executive director of the Freedom To Read Foundation <http://ftrf.org> (FTRF), died April 11 after a year-long fight with stomach cancer. She was 69. ALA officials said she died at Evanston Hospital in suburban Chicago. Krug was a staunch fighter against censorship and founder of Banned Books Week <http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooks week.cfm> . She had been head of the OIF since 1967. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To see the entire article, please visit the Library Journal website here <http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6651093.html> . Katelyn Patterson Office Coordinator Central Texas Library System, Inc. 1005 West 41st Street, Ste 100 Austin, TX 78756 512-583-0704 ext. 13 office 512-583-0709 fax www.ctls.net <http://www.ctls.net> The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. ~Lesley Conger
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