True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: Sometimes We're Our Own Worst Enemy -- CHAPTER 1: Where There Once Was None -- CHAPTER 2: Well-Intentioned Censorship Is Still Censorship -- CHAPTER 3: If I Don't Buy It, They Won't Come -- CHAPTER 4: Mixed-Up Ethics -- PART II: How Dare You Recommend This Book to a Child -- CHAPTER 5: Clue-less in Portland -- CHAPTER 6: Vixens, Banditos, and Finding Common Ground -- CHAPTER 7: Long Live the King (Novels)! -- CHAPTER 8: Parent Concern about Classroom Usage Spills Over into School Library -- CHAPTER 9: The Princess Librarian -- CHAPTER 10: The Complexity and Challenges of Censorship in Public Schools -- PART III: Not Only Boy Scouts Should Be Prepared -- CHAPTER 11: I Owe It All to Madonna -- CHAPTER 12: The Battle to Include -- CHAPTER 13: Pornography and Erotica in the Academic Library -- CHAPTER 14: Reasonable Accommodation -- PART IV: When the Tribe Has Spoken -- CHAPTER 15: Cultural Sensitivity or Censorship? -- CHAPTER 16: Developing the Public Library's Geneaology Euchee/Yuchi Collection -- PART V: Conversation + Confrontation + Controversy = Combustion -- CHAPTER 17: 32 Pages, 26 Sentences, 603 Words, and 500,000 Later -- CHAPTER 18: Respect of Fear -- CHAPTER 19: Sweet Movie -- CHAPTER 20: Censorship Avoided -- CHAPTER 21: I Read It in the Paper -- CHAPTER 22: Uncle Bobby's Wedding -- CHAPTER 23: A Community Divided -- CHAPTER 24: The Author Visit That Should Have Been -- CHAPTER 25: One of Those Not So Hideous Stories of a Book Challenge -- PART VI: Crime and Punishment -- CHAPTER 26: A Serial Killer Visits the Library -- CHAPTER 27: Books, Bars, and Behavior -- PART VII: Perhaps It Is Possible to Judge a Book by Its Cover -- CHAPTER 28: The Ghost of Halloween Past -- CHAPTER 29: The Neophyte in the New Age -- CHAPTER 30: Gay Books Display Brings Out High School Faculty Prejudice.

CHAPTER 31: Censorship Looms Over the Rainbow -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

Those facing censorship challenges can find support and inspiration in this book, which compiles dozens of stories from library front lines.

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