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Mason, Marilyn Gell – American Libraries, 1997
Considers issues relating to children's access to information on the Internet in public libraries. Topics include censorship versus selection; First Amendment rights; the American Library Association's challenge to the Communications Decency Act; filtering software; and the role of the public library. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Childrens Libraries, Computer Software
Peer reviewedHerring, Mark Y. – Society, 1999
Addresses three aspects of the issue of intellectual freedom: the nature of intellectual freedom as defined by the American Library Association's "Intellectual Freedom Manual," the underlying philosophy implicit in that expression, and an alternative to both the manual and its philosophical presuppositions. Attempts to define the…
Descriptors: Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, Freedom of Speech, Intellectual Freedom
