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Toni Samek
Professor
Dr. Toni Samek is Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta. Her interests are in intercultural information ethics. Toni’s books include: Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarianship 1967 to 1974; Librarianship and Human Rights: A twenty-first century guide; She Was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West; Information Ethics, Globalization and Citizenship: Essays on Ideas to Praxis; and, Minds Alive: Libraries and Archives Now. Toni currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Free Expression and the International Center for Information Ethics. Toni received the debut Library Journal Teaching Award in 2007, a Faculty of Education Graduate Teaching Award in 2009, the 3M National Teaching Fellowship from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in 2012, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Distinguished Alumna Award in 2013, and the Library Association of Alberta President’s Award in 2017.