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Louise S. Robbins is an American academic and formerly director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Library and Information Studies. Robbins has won awards for her articles and books dealing with the history of librarians [1] and intellectual freedom in the United States. [2] [3] Her best-known work is The Dismissal of Miss Ruth ...
Aug 9, 2021 · Louise Robbins is known in the legal profession as a ”hired gun,” an expert witness whose testimony has helped prosecutors put more than a dozen men behind bars and on Death Row.Though ...
Oct 10, 2017 · Louise S. Robbins has been a force in and for Wisconsin libraries since she became Assistant Professor and Faculty Administrator at the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies in 1991. She joined SLIS after being a reading specialist, teacher, and librarian in Oklahoma where she also served as Ada, Oklahoma’s first woman council ...
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History of libraries and librarianship from the 1930s-1960s, especially intellectual freedom and censorship, as well as services to African AmericansEconomic, social and educational value of public libraries in a democracyStrategic planning and outcomes assessment for public libraries, including process of establishing mission, goals, objectives and means of measurementAuthor of award-winning "The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library."One of 100 Notable Librarians, Oklahoma Library Association, 2007President, Association for Library and Information Science Education (two years)Informal consultant to Gov. Thompson's Task Force on PrivacySep 8, 2023 · UW-Madison library and information studies professor emeritus Louise Robbins considers the context and consequences of a push to remove hundreds of LGBTQ-related materials from an Iron River library.
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Louise Robbins, Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Sciences at UW-Madison and author of “Censorship and the American Library: The American Library Association’s Response to Threats to Intellectual Freedom, 1939-1969”
Jan 15, 2001 · Louise S. Robbins tells the story of the political, social, economic, and cultural threads that became interwoven in a particular time and place, creating a strong web of opposition. This combination of forces ensnared Ruth Brown and her colleagues-for the most part women and African Americans-who championed the cause of racial equality.
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