Censorship or Selection? Academic Library Holdings of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2007

Autor/in	Best, Rickey
Titel	Censorship or Selection? Academic Library Holdings of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2007
Quelle	In: Education Libraries, 33 (2010) 2, S.18-35 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0148-1061
Schlagwörter	Intellectual Freedom; Public Libraries; Academic Libraries; Professional Associations; Library Materials; Censorship; Books + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Akademische Freiheit; Intellektuelle Unabhängigkeit; Public library; Stadtbücherei; Öffentliche Bibliothek; College; Colleges; University; Universities; Libary; Libraries; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Universität; Bibliothek; Hochschulbibliothek; Politische Zensur; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie
Abstract	Academic libraries often serve as the protectors of challenged books. Pressure on public libraries to remove controversial works can and often does result in the restriction of access or removal of the work from those libraries shelves. Academic libraries, however, operate with a stronger sense of academic and intellectual freedom. To analyze how well academic libraries do in acquiring and making available books which appear on the American Library Association's Challenged Books list, the list for 2007 was analyzed in WorldCat to determine the number and overall percentage of academic libraries holding the titles. Overall, 29.94% of the libraries holding challenged books were academic libraries. (Contains 39 endnotes and 7 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10