# Event Details - **Event Name**: Freedom of Information/Information as Freedom - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 10:00 am – Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 04:15 pm - **Event Description**: CILIP Library and Information History Group Conference 2025About this EventThis conference, from CILIP's Library and Information History Group, considers the historic control of information, such as through censorship, the removal of books from shelves and the removal of librarians from libraries. While such issues are at the forefront of our minds, the practice of book banning or restrictions on access to material is nothing new. Libraries have come under attack throughout history, governments have influenced the contents of their collections, and plenty of librarians have self-censored what they felt was unsuitable material.For all queries about the conference, please contact Kathryn Peak at kathryn.peak@kcl.ac.ukAgenda?: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AMRegistration?: 10:30 AM - 10:40 AMWelcome and opening remarks?: 10:40 AM - 11:10 AMEmma Sibbald, Trinity College, OxfordInfo: “She makes each place where she comes a Library”: women users of Oxbridge university libraries, 1600-1850?: 11:10 AM - 11:40 AMGabriella Reyes, University College LondonInfo: Cataloguing the Empire: Classification as Colonial Project?: 11:40 AM - 12:00 PMCoffee?: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PMRichard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian, University of OxfordInfo: Keynote?: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PMLunch and tours of the National Library of Scotland?: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PMFiona Mossman, Scottish Courts and Tribunal ServiceInfo: A brief history of access to legal information in Scotland?: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PMAlana Farrell, University of BirminghamInfo: The foundations and impacts of over a century of abortion information censorship in Ireland?: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PMDavid McMenemy and Steven BuchananInfo: David McMenemy, University of Glasgow and Steven Buchanan, University of Stirling; Preservation of intellectual freedom: historical reflections on the censorship challenges faced by public libraries?: 04:00 PM - 04:15 PMClosing remarks - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/edinburgh/freedom-of-information-information-as-freedom/100001698425850439 - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 50, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Edinburgh - **state**: SC - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: National Library of Scotland - **lat**: 55.9477608 - **long**: -3.1916724 - **full address**: National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Freedom of Information/Information as Freedom - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/77cbe2eb0369b6baf3b17ffa9f99062e9d03368dedc458cc2fb9b024b79a91d6-rimg-w1200-h1200-dc785f49-gmir.jpg?v=1758882111 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Freedom of Information/Information as Freedom being held? 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