The Intellectual Freedom Fund provides financial assistance to libraries and library organizations facing challenges related to intellectual freedom.
Grants of up to $10,000 are available.
The fund is available to public libraries serving populations under 29,999, or libraries (for example, an academic library in a small college or university) that would encounter undue financial hardship when defending intellectual freedom.
The fund will provide supports to libraries that may require funds in the following types of situations:
- Equitable access to library service to the public is at risk including the freedom to read, listen, view and create at the library.
- The need for the library to resist attempts to censor or curtail access to information, the freedom to read, view, listen or participate by demanding the removal of, or restrictions to library information sources in any format including events.
- To defend the library in instances where a claim or accusation has been made that speech or displays have been used in a way that is unlawful. This includes
the need to access this fund to determine if these instances are unlawful