Here you will find information on CILIP's work on intellectual freedom and privacy.

CILIP Survey on Police, Surveillance and Libraries, June 2008


CILIP had received a number of reports concerning increased police or other security agency activity with regards to libraries and their users. We sent out a short survey to heads of library services in June to establish whether there were any issues causing concern to librarians regarding user privacy, censorship and freedom of access to information.

Read the results report of the surveillance survey here

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