Between 1967 and 1974, a number of librarians came together to push
for change in the American Library Association. They soon prompted
a majority of the profession to examine their role in the
dissemination and preservation of culture and to ask basic
questions about the terrain that the profession defends. A
particular concern was the limitations to intellectual freedom (if
any) that might arise in the pursuit of other perhaps equally
worthy goals. The questions raised by this advocacy group were
based on a relatively new concept of librarianly social
responsibility that was partly an outgrowth of the civil rights and
antiwar agitation of the period and partly a continuation of the
proud traditions of the alternative press movement in the United
States. The resulting dissension and turmoil exposed an inherent
discrepancy not only between the rhetoric of ideals within the
profession and the reality of practice but between librarians as
agents of change--librarians' having a social agenda--and
professional neutrality or the provision of information for all
sides without taking sides. These conflicts have never been
resolved. The reader will find in this book a fully researched
presentation of the years of ferment and political infighting that
brought the issues into such sharp focus.
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