From an amazing piece in the September-October 2009 issue of Academe:

This unwillingness to engage academic and intellectual freedom within libraries has resulted in a serious bifurcation: such protections exist for the users of libraries and in building, maintaining, preserving, and providing access to library collections of all types, but they do not cross the desk in practice to the professionals who must stock those collections and serve those users. Academic and intellectual freedom in the library workplace is, primarily, a rhetorical value and an object lesson to those who take academic freedom for granted or misunderstand it. It is a reality only for those librarians fortunate enough to be faculty members—and to be taken seriously as such.

The article (“Who Defends Intellectual Freedom for Librarians?“) is certainly worth reading in its entireity, and the conversations that it might set off are certainly worth having.  [Via Library Juice.]