Abstract: Libraries that serve the public – school, community public, and academic – have certain intellectual freedom responsibilities to their clientele. That is, they must protect the rights of every individual to both seek and receive information without restriction. How librarians exercise these responsibilities within the different purposes, constraints, and governing structures of their parent institutions is quite different.

Carla J. Stoffle has been Dean of Libraries and Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona since July 1, 1991. Before joining the University of Arizona, she was Deputy Director at the University of Michigan Library in Ann Arbor from 1985-1991. In 1972, she was employed as a Reference Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside; by the time she left that institution in 1985, was the Assistant Chancellor for Educational Services. From 1969 to 1972, Ms. Stoffle was Head of the Government Publications Department at Eastern Kentucky University. Ms. Stoffle earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado. She received her M.S.L.S. degree from the University of Kentucky. She has completed course work for a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Wisconsin.