True stories of censorship battles in America's libraries
By: edited by Valerie Nye and Kathy Barco
Publisher: American Library Association; Amer Library Assn Editions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838911303
Subjects: Libraries; Case studies; Censorship; Intellectual freedom; Librarians; Professional ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where there once was none / Lucy Bellamy; title: Well-intentioned censorship is still censorship : the challenge of public library employees / Ron Critchfield and David M. Powell; title: If I don't buy it, they won't come / Peggy Kaney; title: Mixed-up ethics / Susan Patron; title: Clue-less in Portland / Natasha Forrester; title: Vixens, banditos, and finding common ground / Alisa C. Gonzalez; title: Parent concern about classroom usage spills over into school library / Laurie Treat; title: The princess librarian : an allegory / Sherry York; title: The complexity and challenges of censorship in public schools : overstepping boundaries, cultivating compassionate conversations / Marie-Elise Wheatwind; title: I owe it all to Madonna / Lise Chlebanowski; title: The battle to include / Gretchen Gould; title: Pornography and erotica in an academic library / Michelle Martinez; title: Reasonable accommodation : why our library created voluntary kids cards / Matt Nojonen; title: Cultural sensitivity or censorship? / Susanne Caro; title: Developing the public library's genealogy Euchee/Yuchi collection / Cathlene Myers Mattix; title: The respect of fear / Amy Crump; title: Sweet movie / Sydne Dean; title: Censorship avoided : student activism in a Texas school district / Robert Farrell; title: I read it in the paper / Hollis Helmeci; title: Uncle Bobby's wedding / James LaRue; title: A community divided / Kristin Pekoll; title: The author visit that should have been / Karin Perry; title: One of those not so hideous stories of a book challenge / Kathryn Prestidge; title: A serial killer visits the library / Paul Hawkins; title: Books, bars, and behavior : censorship in correctional libraries / Erica MacCreaigh; title: The ghost of Halloween past / Kathy Barco; title: The neophyte in the new age / Rosemary J. Kilbridge; title: Gay books display brings out high school faculty prejudice / Nadean Meyer; title: Censorship looms over the rainbow / Cindy Simerlink.