Deborah Caldwell-Stone

Deborah Caldwell-Stone is interim director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom and the Freedom to Read Foundation. Before Caldwell-Stone joined the American Library Association in 2000, she practiced appellate law before the state and federal courts in Chicago, Illinois. She now works closely with librarians, library trustees and educators on a wide range of intellectual freedom and privacy issues, including the impact of new technologies on library patrons’ privacy and confidentiality. She has served on the faculty of the ALA-sponsored Law for Librarians workshops and is a contributing author for the Intellectual Freedom Manual.