On Censorship by James LaRue

Author:James LaRue [LaRue, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: 2023-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

More generally, policies codify the purpose and operational infrastructure of public institutions. At ALA, I learned that the presence or absence of a robust policy manual was the greatest single determinant of whether a challenged resource is preserved, or censored.

As mentioned earlier, many of the challenges to libraries are attempts to repurpose them, to replace policies with politics. But there’s another lesson to holding to policies, an example provided from one of the hot button censorship issues from about 2017 on: drag queen story times.

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