True stories of censorship battles in America's libraries [electronic resource] / edited by Valerie Nye and Kathy Barco. - Chicago : American Library Association, 2012. - xix, 175 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






Libraries--Censorship--United States.
Intellectual freedom--United States.
Librarians--Professional ethics--United States.
Libraries--United States--Case studies.


Electronic books.

Z711.4 / .T78 2012eb

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