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Hello All, LIS educators respect and uphold academic freedom.* The library field has struggled to balance privacy issues and open records laws. Given this, I am very interested to know what LIS educators think of the current national debate on William Cronon (UW-Madison Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies) and the Open Records Law request for emails from his university email account. Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/24/open-records-attack-on-academic-freedom/ “...It is precisely this fear of intellectual inquiry being stifled by the abuse of state power that has long led scholars and scientists to cherish the phrase 'academic freedom' as passionately as most Americans cherish such phrases as 'free speech' and 'the First Amendment.'” GOP fails to get all of professor's email: University of Wisconsin chancellor cites academic freedom, privacy By Don Walker of the [Milwaukee] Journal Sentinel http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/119103214.html Comments? Opinions? Sherri *"As LIS educators, we respect and uphold academic freedom and protect the freedom to learn and to teach." ALISE Ethics Guidelines Statement http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=103911 Sharon McQueen School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison Room 4252 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 205-2234 Fax: (608) 263-4849 https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/smcqueen/web/