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Author Nye, Valerie

Title True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries
Published Chicago : ALA Editions, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (202 pages)
Contents Where there once was none / Lucy Bellamy -- Well-intentioned censorship is still censorship : the challenge of public library employees / Ron Critchfield and David M. Powell -- If I don't buy it, they won't come / Peggy Kaney -- Mixed-up ethics / Susan Patron -- Clue-less in Portland / Natasha Forrester -- Vixens, banditos, and finding common ground / Alisa C. Gonzalez -- Parent concern about classroom usage spills over into school library / Laurie Treat -- The princess librarian : an allegory / Sherry York -- The complexity and challenges of censorship in public schools : overstepping boundaries, cultivating compassionate conversations / Marie-Elise Wheatwind -- I owe it all to Madonna / Lise Chlebanowski -- The battle to include / Gretchen Gould -- Pornography and erotica in an academic library / Michelle Martinez -- Reasonable accommodation : why our library created voluntary kids cards / Matt Nojonen -- Cultural sensitivity or censorship? / Susanne Caro -- Developing the public library's genealogy Euchee/Yuchi collection / Cathlene Myers Mattix -- The respect of fear / Amy Crump -- Sweet movie / Sydne Dean -- Censorship avoided : student activism in a Texas school district / Robert Farrell -- I read it in the paper / Hollis Helmeci -- Uncle Bobby's wedding / James LaRue -- A community divided / Kristin Pekoll -- The author visit that should have been / Karin Perry -- One of those not so hideous stories of a book challenge / Kathryn Prestidge -- A serial killer visits the library / Paul Hawkins -- Books, bars, and behavior : censorship in correctional libraries / Erica MacCreaigh -- The ghost of Halloween past / Kathy Barco -- The neophyte in the new age / Rosemary J. Kilbridge -- Gay books display brings out high school faculty prejudice / Nadean Meyer -- Censorship looms over the rainbow / Cindy Simerlink
Summary Those facing censorship challenges can find support and inspiration in this book, which compiles dozens of stories from library front lines
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Intellectual freedom -- United States
Librarians -- Professional ethics -- United States
Libraries -- Censorship -- United States
Libraries -- United States -- Case studies
Libraries -- Censorship -- United States -- Case studies
Librarians -- United States.
Librarians.
Intellectual freedom.
Librarians -- Professional ethics.
Libraries.
Libraries -- Censorship.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
Author Barco, Kathy
ISBN 9780838993620
0838993621
9780838994689
0838994687
0838911307
9780838911303