[Asis-l] Emily Knox elected to National Coalition Against Censorship board

[Glaze, Christy Grant]

Emily Knox elected to National Coalition Against Censorship board

iSchool at Illinois<http://ischool.illinois.edu> Assistant Professor Emily Knox has been elected to a three-year term<http://ischool.illinois.edu/articles/2016/07/knox-elected-national-coalition-against-censorship-board> on the Board of Directors of the National Coalition Against Censorship<http://ncac.org/> (NCAC). An alliance of more than fifty nonprofit organizations, NCAC promotes freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression and opposes censorship in all its forms.

Knox’s research interests include information access, intellectual freedom and censorship, information ethics, information policy, and the intersection of print culture and reading practices. In 2015 she was awarded the Illinois Library Association Intellectual Freedom Award and was named a WISE Instructor of the Year.

Knox’s book, Book Banning in 21st Century America, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in January 2015. It is the first monograph in the Beta Phi Mu Scholars’ Series. The book is an expansion of the analysis presented in her Library & Information Science Research article, "Society, institutions, and common sense: Themes in the discourse of challengers in 21st century United States."

Knox also contributed a chapter on religion and intellectual freedom to The Library Juice Press Handbook of Intellectual Freedom: Concepts, Cases, and Theories, the 2016 winner of the Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award for best published work in intellectual freedom. She previously wrote a manual on running a small interlibrary loan and document delivery department published by Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association. It is listed as a key source in Library and Information Science: A Guide to Key Literature and Sources (Bemis, 2014, p. 107).

Knox received her PhD from the doctoral program at the Rutgers University School of Communication & Information. Her master’s in library and information science is from the iSchool at Illinois. She also holds a BA in religious studies from Smith College and an AM in the same field from The University of Chicago Divinity School. She was the Associate Director and Reference Librarian at the St. Mark’s (now Keller) Library of the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City for five years before returning to school.

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Christy Glaze, MLS
Communications Coordinator
School of Information Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ischool.illinois.edu