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Title True stories of censorship battles in America's libraries / edited by Valerie Nye and Kathy Barco.

Publication Info. Chicago : American Library Association, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 175 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Contents 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.
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Subject Libraries -- Censorship -- United States.
Libraries -- Censorship.
United States.
Intellectual freedom -- United States.
Intellectual freedom.
Librarians -- Professional ethics -- United States.
Librarians -- Professional ethics.
Libraries -- United States -- Case studies.
Libraries.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books -- Case studies.
Electronic books -- Case studies.
Case studies.
Added Author Nye, Valerie, 1971-
Barco, Kathy, 1946-
Other Form: Print version: True stories of censorship battles in America's libraries. Chicago : American Library Association, 2012 9780838911303 (DLC) 2011031913 (OCoLC)747099267
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