Dr. Asato Receives Best Research Award from the Nippon Association for Librarianship

Dr. Noriko Asato received an award at the 2012 Nippon Association for Librarianship conference in Kobe, Japan last week. The award is presented to the best research article published every two years in their journal Toshokan Kai (Library World). The English translation of the Japanese title is “Responding to Librarians who Defend the Library Bill of Rights: The ALA and Intellectual Freedom in a Period of Transition.” It explored librarians’ intellectual freedom.