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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: Waldenbooks fires staff for refusing to sell racist book!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.185431.31464@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:54:31 GMT
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- jsdph@acad3.alaska.edu (Dennis P. Harris) writes:
-
- [...]
- >I have already informed WB that I intend to boycott them until they stop
- >selling the book and reinstate the fired employees by posting a message to
- >their user services folks in their Walden Computerbooks on-line store in the
- >Compu$erve Mall (GO WB), and I urge others to join me.
- [...]
-
- No thanks. I don't want WB to suppress the material I don't like
- because I don't want WB to suppress material that I do like. I'm
- enclosing a pointer to the Association of American Publisher's Freedom
- to Read Statement. And the American Library Association's Statement on
- Diversity which says "Librarians have an obligation to protect library
- collections from removal of materials based on personal bias or
- prejudice, ..." (I think the same applies to book store employees.)
-
- - Carl
-
- ANNOTATED REFERENCES
-
- (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)
-
- =================
- library/freedom-to-read.ala
- =================
- The "Freedom to Read Statement" of the American Library Association
- and Association of American Publishers.
-
- It says in part: "We trust Americans to recognize propaganda, and to
- reject it. We do not believe they need the help of censors to assist
- them in this task. We do not believe they are prepared to sacrifice
- their heritage of a free press in order to be "protected" against what
- others think may be bad for them. We believe they still favor free
- enterprise in ideas and expression."
-
- =================
- library/diversity.ala
- =================
- "Diversity in Collection Development"
-
- An interpretation by the American Library Association of the "Library
- Bill of Rights"
-
- It says that collections should be inclusive, not exclusive. And that
- materials should cover the needs and interest of all patrons. "This
- includes materials that reflect political, economic, religious,
- social, minority, and sexual issues."
-
- =================
- =================
-
- These document(s) are available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
- method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
- to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):
-
- pub/academic/library/freedom-to-read.ala
- pub/academic/library/diversity.ala
-
- To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
- Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
- name):
-
- send acad-freedom/library freedom-to-read.ala
- send acad-freedom/library diversity.ala
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-