Intellectual Freedom and Libraries: a Quantitative Discourse Analysis

Abstract: Human rights declaration was set and published by United Nation in 1948. The most important part of the human right declaration is that, everyone has the right to search and re-ceive information at any time. To this respect, libraries play significant task in disseminating information (Knowledge) to each individual. According to library bill of right, ” Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlight-enment”. The main question of this paper is that what position does library play in light of intel-lectual freedom and right of information? It is argued in this paper that there is a positive associa-tion between intellectual freedom and the library. Method: To measure the state of intellectual freedom and the library a quantitative discourse analysis methodology explores the main question of the paper mentioned above. Analysis: Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) was patent on June 13, 1989 by Deerwester1 (et al). LSA uses Singular Value Decomposition method to draw ontological relationship between words in a corpus [Deerewester,]. LSA techniques will be used to illustrate the linkage between the intellectual freedom and the libraries. The paper will analyze following headlines: First, there will be an investigation of issues of intellectual freedom and freedom of expression in moder