Freedom of Information/Information as Freedom

Fri Nov 21 2025 at 10:00 am to 04:15 pm UTC+00:00

National Library of Scotland | Edinburgh

Kathryn Peak
Publisher/HostKathryn Peak
Freedom of Information\/Information as Freedom
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CILIP Library and Information History Group Conference 2025
About this Event

This conference, from CILIP's Library and Information History Group, considers the historic control of information, such as through censorship, the removal of books from shelves and the removal of librarians from libraries. While such issues are at the forefront of our minds, the practice of book banning or restrictions on access to material is nothing new. Libraries have come under attack throughout history, governments have influenced the contents of their collections, and plenty of librarians have self-censored what they felt was unsuitable material.



For all queries about the conference, please contact Kathryn Peak at [email protected]


Agenda

๐Ÿ•‘: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Registration
๐Ÿ•‘: 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Welcome and opening remarks
๐Ÿ•‘: 10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Emma Sibbald, Trinity College, Oxford

Info: โ€œShe makes each place where she comes a Libraryโ€: women users of Oxbridge university libraries, 1600-1850


๐Ÿ•‘: 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Gabriella Reyes, University College London

Info: Cataloguing the Empire: Classification as Colonial Project


๐Ÿ•‘: 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee
๐Ÿ•‘: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian, University of Oxford

Info: Keynote


๐Ÿ•‘: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Lunch and tours of the National Library of Scotland
๐Ÿ•‘: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Fiona Mossman, Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service

Info: A brief history of access to legal information in Scotland


๐Ÿ•‘: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Alana Farrell, University of Birmingham

Info: The foundations and impacts of over a century of abortion information censorship in Ireland


๐Ÿ•‘: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
David McMenemy and Steven Buchanan

Info: David McMenemy, University of Glasgow and Steven Buchanan, University of Stirling; Preservation of intellectual freedom: historical reflections on the censorship challenges faced by public libraries


๐Ÿ•‘: 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Closing remarks
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tickets

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