By placing its professional expertise in the service of
maintaining the democratic values of free expression and pluralism,
American librarianship not only defended its professional autonomy
in the area of book selection, but also developed an ideology of
intellectual freedom and claimed its defense as a central
jurisdiction. This volume charts the library profession's journey
from the adoption of the 1939 Library's Bill of Rights to the 1969
development of the Freedom to Read Foundation. It identifies
external events that posed threats to intellectual freedom and
traces the ALA's response to those threats, particularly
librarians' activities and discourse, and the motives and
effectiveness of leaders responsible for forging the ALA's
response.
Much of the data is drawn from the three most widely circulated
library periodicals - "American Library Association Bulletin,"
"Wilson Library Bulletin," and "Library Journal" - that chronicle
the debates that took place during the period. More importantly,
the study makes extensive use of primary archival sources, state
library journals, library school bulletins, and interviews. These
sources reveal that by setting its professional expertise in the
service of the democratic values of free expression and pluralism,
American librarianship embarked on an odyssey of self-definition,
through which it has carved out and defended its professional
jurisdiction.
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