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The Library Bill of Rights and School Library Media Programs.
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Hopkins, Dianne McAfee – Library Trends, 1996
Uses national guidelines, collection development texts, and the intellectual freedom literature to assess the practical value of the Library Bill of Rights in school library settings. Discussion focuses on invoking the statement as support when dealing with challenges to the collection. Appendixes include the Library Bill of Rights itself and…
Descriptors: Censorship, Guidelines, Intellectual Freedom, Library Collection Development
The War on Books and Ideas: The California Library Association and Anti-Communist Censorship in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Mediavilla, Cindy – Library Trends, 1997
Chronicles the California Library Association's battle against anti-Communist censorship attempts from 1946 to 1956 in schools and public libraries as well as on the legislative front. An overview of the "Fiske report" is offered as an explanation of how intellectual freedom challenges impacted California librarians of the period.…
Descriptors: Censorship, Communism, History, Intellectual Freedom