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As stated, the topic of this blog is intellectual freedom and its role within libraries and the information science field. More specifically, this blog attempts to answer one question; does intellectual freedom promote innovation and democracy within our field? The answer of course, is not simple. Instead, merely by asking and attempting to answer this question, we, as information professionals, are forced to examine a profusion, a near plague of other questions. Some of these questions include: what is intellectual freedom, what is innovation, how does intellectual freedom affect old, emerging, and all technologies within our field, how does intellectual freedom affect children’s use of information, and how does intellectual freedom affect our profession across the world. This list could go on. These are only a few of the questions this multifaceted topic engenders however, we, as a group believe that they are some of the most pressing questions that arise from our initial inquiry and we hope in analyzing them, that we bring some clarity to our primary debate. We invite and would appreciate your comments on the issue in general as well as on all of the more specific topics.