Abstract: Libraries that serve the public – school, community public, and academic – have certain intellectual freedom responsibilities to their clientele. That is, they must protect the rights of every individual to both seek and receive information without restriction. How librarians exercise...

Franci Washburn holds Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees in English, Creative Writing, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. She writes poetry, short fiction and novels, and has published articles in Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, American Indian...

Thomas E. Sheridan, Professor of Anthropology, Southwest Center and School of Anthropology, holds a joint appointment in the Southwest Center and the Department of Anthropology and have conducted ethnographic and ethnohistoric research in the Southwest and Northern Mexico since 1971. I directed...