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Loading... True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Librariesby Valerie Nye, Kathy Barco (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. While finding accounts of the big censorship battles (Ulysses, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer) is easily done, this collection provides more typical censorship challenges libraries must deal with on a more common basis. A useful touchstone given these times of greatly increased challenges to library materials we are seeing today. no reviews | add a review
Librarians present their stories of dealing with challenges to library materials. Their stories come from all types of libraries: school, academic, public, and special libraries. No library descriptions found. |
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While the most common involved parents freaking out about their kids' reading material, there were also really thought-provoking stories about other types of censorship, such as librarians' self-censorship and about student activism against censorship.
Ending now with the quintessential quote from the book: "Who do they think they are? What gives them the right to decide what I can and can't read?" (p.49) ( )