Censorship as it affects the school library

Lees, Gladys L.

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Title

Censorship as it affects the school library

Author(s)

Lees, Gladys L.

Issue Date

1954

Keyword(s)

School libraries

Abstract

"Censorship, as a problem, in the school library is increasing rather than decreasing. Attacks on the schools, which usually include criticism of materials, have increased in number during the last few years. The cases at Pasadena, California; Denver, Colorado; Englewood, New Jersey; Ferndale, Michigan; Tenafly, New Jersey; Scarsdale, New York; Port Washington, New York and many others have had national publicity. There may be many more. Although these attacks on the schools were in widely separated areas, there was a curious similarity in the criticism and method of attack. Richard B. Kennan, Secretary of the National Commission for the Defense of Democracy Through Education, of the National Education Association, sent 15,239 questionnaires to superintendents, advisory members and local association presidents concerning ""unjustified attacks"" on local schools. By ""unjustified attacks"" they meant movements which appeared to have as their purpose ""nothing less than the emasculation or destruction of the American system of free public education."""

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (1st : 1954)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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