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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers,alt.censorship
- Subject: Re: Waldenbooks fires staff for refusing to sell racist book!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.170155.12717@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 17:01:55 GMT
- References: <5SEP199223305034@acad3.alaska.edu> <1480@frackit.UUCP> <1992Sep14.232434.1675@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Rudy.Zalesak@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Rudy Zalesak) writes:
-
- [...]
- >The employees were not being any more censorious than the *owners* of
- >WB, who also make judgements about what books/calendars etc. to
- >display.
- [...]
-
- Not so. The local manager was trying to suppress material because
- he/she personally disapproved of it. As far as I know, Waldenbook
- sells even books it corporately disapproves of.
-
- - 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/selection-workbook.ala
- =================
- Full text of ALA's selection policy workbook.
-
- The American Library Association's "Workbook on Selection Policy
- Writing". Although aimed at textbook and library book selection in
- grade and high schools, it also seems applicable to newsgroup
- selection. It includes information about how create a selection policy
- and how to handle complaints. It also includes a sample selection
- policy.
-
- =================
- =================
-
- 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/selection-workbook.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 selection-workbook.ala
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-