True stories of censorship battles in America's libraries - Nye, Valerie, 1971-; Barco, Kathy, 1946-; ebrary, Inc. (Chicago : American Library Association, 2012)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Libraries -- Censorship -- United States; Intellectual freedom -- United States; Librarians -- Professional ethics -- United States; Libraries -- United States -- Case studies; Electronic books