Kai Ekholm named Chairman of FAIFE

Published: 7.5.2009

The Board of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) has named Kai Ekholm, Director and Chief Librarian of the National Library of Finland, as the Chairman of FAIFE for the term 2009–2011.

The objective of the IFLA’s FAIFE (Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression) is to enhance the public’s awareness of freedom of speech and expression in library operations. Besides publishing international reports and surveys, the Committee activates discussion in the library world and its immediate surroundings.

Kai Ekholm has lectured on censorship and the freedom of speech for about twenty years. His online publications include Kielletyt kirjat (Banned Books, 1997). In his doctoral thesis (2000) Ekholm treated political censorship in Finnish libraries from 1944 to 1946.

As FAIFE’s new Chairman, Ekholm succeeds Emeritus Professor
Paul Sturges of the Loughborough University’s Department of Information Science.

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