True stories of censorship battles in America's libraries / edited by Valerie Nye and Kathy Barco.
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.
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2012.
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Table of 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.