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Worth Noting: Editorials, Letters, Essays, an Interview, and Bibliography - Softcover

Berman, Sanford

 
9780786493517: Worth Noting: Editorials, Letters, Essays, an Interview, and Bibliography
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0786493518 ISBN 13: 9780786493517
Publisher: McFarland & Co, 2014

Synopsis

The topics of these 34 selections range from "Herrenvolk" terminology, fiction access, and subject headings for consumer health information to South African censorship, Idi Amin's repressions, and the Creationists' "hidden agenda." Also includes material on cataloging teenage literature, racism in children's books and an ALA-produced film (The Speaker), and reportage on the "intellectual freedom" scene in Greece, West Germany, and Soviet Union.

Reprinted from sources such as Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, Top of the News, Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, Technicalities.

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About the Author

Famed librarian Sanford Berman as written several books and numerous shorter works ("provocative"--Library Journal. He is the recipient of an American Library Association Honorary Membership (2004) and the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award (1996), and was named Minnesota Librarian of the Year in 1977.

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Publisher
McFarland & Co
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0786493518
ISBN 13 
9780786493517
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
184