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Solo Librarians and Intellectual Freedom: Perspectives from the Field
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Adams, Helen R. – Knowledge Quest, 2011
As schools across the country face increasing fiscal restraints, school library professional positions are being eliminated at an alarming rate. As a result, many school librarians are becoming the only certified library professional in a district, serving multiple schools and grade levels. Suddenly, each is a solo librarian. As a solo librarian…
Descriptors: Intellectual Freedom, Elementary Secondary Education, Constitutional Law, School Libraries
Who's Protecting Whom? AASL and Intellectual Freedom
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Johns, Sara Kelly – Knowledge Quest, 2007
"When you start your new job as a school librarian, one of the first steps you must take is to ask to see the district's book selection policy. If there isn't one, write one. Right away. It protects you, the teachers, and the district." That advice was part of the author's school library administration course at the School of Library and…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Intellectual Freedom, Library Administration, School Libraries
You Can't Play That: A Selective Chronology of Banned Music: 1850-1991.
Volz, Edward J. – School Library Journal, 1991
Discussion of music censorship provides a chronology of banned music from 1850 to the present. Highlights include reasons for music censorship, including lyrics that concern politics, sex, drugs, or death; rewriting song lyrics; radio air play versus sales; warning labels; First Amendment principles; and suggestions to defuse censorship in…
Descriptors: Audiodisks, Audiotape Recordings, Censorship, Library Administration
Holding the Line: Censorship and Library Trustees.
Kreamer, Jean Thibodeaux – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1994
Considers the role of public library trustees in censorship challenges. Topics addressed include the need for clear library policies concerning censorship; informing trustees about First Amendment rights, challenges regarding problem patrons and age restrictions, the trustee as citizen as well as board member, and the board's need for appropriate…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Censorship, Citizen Role, Governing Boards
Porn Alley: Now at Your Local Public Library.
Schuyler, Michael – Computers in Libraries, 1999
Suggests that a definitive court ruling is needed to better define rights and responsibilities related to the First Amendment and libraries' Internet use policies so that libraries can provide a comfortable environment for users while maintaining the law. Discusses filters; court cases; claims of the anti-porn cult; research studies on how much of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Court Litigation, Information Policy, Internet
Libraries, the First Amendment and Cyberspace: What You Need To Know.
Peck, Robert S. – 2000
Intended to be a practical guide to the issues that arise under the First Amendment for libraries that provide public access to the Internet, this book contains the following chapters: (1) "Questions and Answers about the First Amendment: Sex, Lies, and Cyberspace"; (2) "Basic First Amendment Principles and Their Application to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Confidentiality, Elementary Secondary Education, Freedom of Speech