...David McMenemy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the nature of the debate in terms of a recent consultation in England on guidance for public libraries in selection of controversial materials. Also discussed is the issue of censorship in terms of how it relates to the practice...

...Stuart Hannabuss © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Censorship USA Politics Freedom of information John   Earl Haynes and Harvey   Klehr . Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics . Cambridge and New York, NY...

... for the profession. Findings The report raised key issues around censorship, and the role of the librarian in selecting a balanced collection for their public. These concerns need to be debated at length, since they represent fundamental professional concerns. Practical implications The paper debates key...

... meeting challenges in an adult professional way. Given that a lot of talk about intellectual freedom and censorship is either dogmatic or childish in library work, The New Inquisition is a book I would give to any librarian who tried to bend my ear and say that people out there really do...

.... Critically, too, its content challenges discussion, and the debates it raises will run and run. The appearance in 2006 of latest titles like The Censorship Debate and The Human Rights Issue (two of a longer list that includes Grief and Loss, Self‐Esteem and Body Image, Focus...

... to information professionals. Censorship Librarianship history Libraries © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 The circulating libraries are offering to undertake responsibilities properly due from parents and guardians to those less able to discriminate: the public library...

... and censorship. Emphasizes the importance of having and following board‐approved policies that deal with gifts and the selection of library and instructional materials. In compiling a list of possible purchases, most librarians' final decisions on which items to purchase are ultimately influenced...

...David McMenemy Purpose To discuss whether in an age of misinformation on the Internet, calls for censorship, continuing ethnic and religious conflict throughout the world, librarians can be ethically neutral in all service encounters with patrons. Design/methodology/approach As a review paper...

... pregnancy and the rising incidence of HIV/AIDS as justification for, if not banning, at least a form of censorship and the watershed limitation of such material? Some of his points may now strike us as quaint, of course, but in considering the specific question of selecting fiction (and its possible...

...$28.00 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Internet International law Censorship The internet is free, the internet is controlled, the internet is controlling. Dilemmas in what seems at first a simple case. It started as revolutionary force expecting to be self‐governing...

...Stuart Hannabuss Paul S.   Boyer . Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age . Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press   2002 . xxviii+466 pp. , ISBN: 0 299 17584 7 (paperback)   $21.95 Print Culture History in Modern...

... a library staff with appropriate skills; and managing the change. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Librarians Skills Marketing Censorship Communication Electronic journals Librarians must remain flexible for the future. If we are indeed headed toward a virtual library...

..., Folkestone Censorship Literature Readers may recognize this work as the 2001 paperback impression (no textual changes or additions) of the original 1993 hardback edition, itself developed from Karolides and Burress’s Celebrating Censored Books dating from 1985. Back in 1993...

...Stuart Hannabuss; Mary Allard Censorship never dies: like intellectual freedom of which it is a part, it goes on changing its form. The discussion reviews some of the key social, political, religious, artistic and moral factors, suggests that censorship is an area which pre‐eminently brings out...

... Censorship There are fundamental questions that society has to ask of itself, its civilisation and the tolerance of its culture as a result of the opportunities which the Internet affords to extremist groups. As libraries install more and more Internet connectivity, extremist groups are beginning...

...J.D. Hendry Ann   Curry . The Limits of Tolerance: Censorship and Intellectual Freedom in Public Libraries . Lanham MD and London : The Scarecrow Press   1997 . xxi + 288 pp , ISBN: 0 8108 3224 0   £37.55 UK distribution by Shelwing Ltd, Folkestone Censorship...