Censorship at our cities' public libraries. Our cities' public libraries own public archival public records of themselves as a public institution. By Gordon M. Conable http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=fifthedition&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=76510 http://tinyurl.com/5dl6c ALA | Public Libraries and Intellectual Freedom Intellectual Freedom Manual Chapters from the Sixth Edition, pp. 41-53 Library staff. One of the most difficult kinds of censorship to combat is that imposed by the library's own staff. Staff members are frequently in a position to censor materials either overtly or covertly, by direct action or by omission. Professional ethics constrain library staff to be wary of the temptation to impose their personal viewpoints and beliefs on library collections. Library staff may be offended by material the same as anyone else. If material remains unordered, uncatalogued, uncirculated, or is expurgated or stolen simply because certain staff member(s) object to it, censorship has occurred. http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=fifthedition&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=76510 http://tinyurl.com/5dl6c List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance
