Barbara M. Jones "Protecting Intellectual Freedom in Your Academic Library: Scenarios from the Front Lines"
Publisher: American Library Association 2009 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 083893580X | PDF | 1.3 MB
Publisher: American Library Association 2009 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 083893580X | PDF | 1.3 MB
Barbara Jones uses her experience and expertise to offer an intellectual freedom title tailored to the academic library environment. This title presents a number of scenarios in which intellectual freedom is at risk and includes case studies that provide narrative treatment of common situations tailored to your library type; easy and motivating ways to prepare new hires for handling intellectual freedom issues; sidebars throughout the book that offer sample policies, definitions of key terms, and analysis of important statutes and decisions; and, detailed information on how to handle challenges to materials in your collection.