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