...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...

..., £12.99 US$19.99 hardback, paperback “Cambridge Essential Histories” series series editor Donald Critchlow © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Censorship USA Politics Freedom of information The period in the USA after World War II and from the 1940s to the 1960s...

... 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...

..., it would not have been the library that took the blame. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Freedom of information Censorship Public libraries We all know about the Inquisition, that ultimate machine of control and censorship. Yet intellectual freedom can be threatened in less...

.... Critically, too, its content challenges discussion, and the debates it raises will run and run. Edited by Craig   Donnellan . The Censorship Debate The Human Rights Issue Our Internet Society Protecting our Privacy “Issues” series . Cambridge : Independence Educational...

...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...

... society, we tinker with those absolutes at our peril. Censorship Ethics Libraries Berwick Sayer's original article was published in Library Review in 1928 and it began by posing the question “What is the correct attitude of the librarian in selecting fiction in the present...

... and censorship. Emphasizes the importance of having and following board‐approved policies that deal with gifts and the selection of library and instructional materials. Michael K. O'Sullivan can be contacted at: michael.osullivan@district196.org © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Censorship...

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

...$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...

... and skills which will enable future information professionals to adapt to new developments as well as to anticipate and actively influence these developments (Krauss‐Leichert, 2001, p. 163). Bierman emphasises this need for flexibility: Librarians Skills Marketing Censorship Communication...

..., 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...

... become over reliant on the dogma of market forces as paramount, and the parallel mantra that information is merely another marketable commodity. The very real contradictions and clashing of cultures, between censorship and traditional values on the one hand, and intellectual freedom on the other...