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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2010
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ913571 |
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Table of Contents:
- Censorship or Selection? Academic Library Holdings of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2007 Best, Rickey Intellectual Freedom Public Libraries Academic Libraries Professional Associations Library Materials Censorship Books 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.)