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Introduction.(The Library Bill of Rights)(Editorial)
June 22, 1996... Introduction
SOMETIMES I WORRY ABOUT THE PROFESSION. From my perspective, there seems to be a tendency to insulate ourselves from new ideas that are driving the intellectual world to which we are connected. Perhaps worse, within the...
The Library Bill of Rights - a critique.(The Library Bill of Rights)
June 22, 1996... A year ago, Wayne Wiegand of Wisconsin's Library School asked me to review the Library Bill of Rights as a lawyer. My first impression remains. Its vague, wooly, and ambiguous language promises more than anyone can deliver, and its commands do...
Champions of a cause: American librarians and the Library Bill of Rights in the 1950s.(The Library Bill of Rights)
June 22, 1996... Over the last half-century, the Library Bill of Rights evolved out of changes in the political, social, and cultural climate and thinking and out of changes in the roles of libraries and librarians. Tensions manifest in its implementation, ably...
The Library Bill of Rights in the 1960s: one profession, one ethic.(The Library Bill of Rights)
June 22, 1996... When Wayne Wiegand asked this author to participate in the symposium on the utility of the Library Bill of Rights, at first there was some hesitation to accept. While my research on librarianship and the alternative press movement from 1967 to...
The Library Bill of Rights and school library media programs. (includes related information on Library Bill of Rights and its interpretation)(The Library Bill of Rights)
June 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION
Gordon Baldwin, in this issue of Library Trends, examines the Library Bill of Rights from the perspective of a first amendment legal scholar and finds it lacking in legal protection for librarians and library users. While his...
Reality bites: the collision of rhetoric, rights, and reality and the Library Bill of Rights. (includes related information on American Library Association's Code of Ethics)(The Library Bill of Rights)
June 22, 1996... Introduction
Because this article focuses on three distinct but related issues--rhetoric, rights, and reality--it is in one sense a series of expanded "sound bites." But the term "bite" has a more significant meaning here. When examining the...
The problem of Holocaust denial literature in libraries.(The Library Bill of Rights)
June 22, 1996... "Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation" (American...
The Library Bill of Rights and intellectual freedom: a selective bibliography.(The Library Bill of Rights)(Bibliography)
June 22, 1996... GENERAL WORKS ON INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AND CENSORSHIP
Abbott, A. D. (1988). The system of professions: An essay on the division of expert labor. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
ALA asked to act on Bodger case in Missouri....