In this paper, the authors address learning analytics and the ways academic libraries are beginning to participate in wider institutional learning analytics initiatives. Since there are moral issues associated with learning analytics, the authors consider how data mining practices run counter to ethical principles in the American Library…

This article outlines how providing accessible transparency to information controlled by institutions of power and suppressed from public view is both similar in purpose to, as well as an essential component of, the pedagogical processes promoted by Paulo Freire, which are necessary for the establishment of a truly just and non-oppressive society.…

Five papers focusing on censorship include: "Censorship: Planning a Safe Ride on the Superhighway" (Daniel Ingvarson); "Censorship and the Need to Develop Policy" (Phil Davidson); "Are You Feeling the Internet Backlash?, or Family Friendly Digital Libraries and Banned URLs Week" (Steve Cisler); "Developing a School Internet Management Plan" (Jack…