📣Michigan Library Association Wins Intellectual Freedom Award

Michigan Library Association has been busy and making a huge impact with the work they are doing. Here are just three areas of recognition to celebrate their accomplishments!

The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to announce the Michigan Library Association (MLA) as the recipient of the 2023 Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award.

The Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award consists of a citation and $1,000 and 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 has been handed out since 1984 and this is the first time Michigan has been recognized.) Read More Here

Michigan Humanities – 2023 Outstanding Humanities Organization
Outstanding Humanities Organization recognizes organizations that have made a lasting contribution over time to the cultural life of their communities or our state through their active support of and involvement in promoting public humanities. Read More Here

Read More Here about the recently announced Michigan Freedom to Read Act that Michigan Library Association was instrumental in getting the legislature to take up.