Journal articles: 'Public libraries Censorship Australia'

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Stone, David R. "Censorship Dateline." Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy 4, no. 1 (June 3, 2019): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/jifp.v4i1.7010.

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Taylor, Kelly, and David McMenemy. "Censorship challenges to books in Scottish public libraries." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 45, no. 2 (March 14, 2012): 153–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961000611435254.

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Stevens, Taylor. "Suppressing communities: An analysis of LGBTQ+ censorship in libraries." Pathfinder: A Canadian Journal for Information Science Students and Early Career Professionals 1, no. 2 (May 8, 2020): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/pathfinder15.

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Librarians serve as defenders of intellectual freedom and social responsibility, and this includes speaking out against censorship. Censorship of information, materials, and books occurs in the public, but censorship can also occur in libraries themselves. Those impacted the most by this censorship are marginalized communities, such as the LGBTQ+ community. The purpose of this paper is to explore how internal, external and institutional censorship affects the LGBTQ+ community and what librarians can do to uphold their defense against censorship. Internal, or self-censorship, occurs at the librarian level where LGBTQ+ materials may be hidden by librarians or library staff or simply not ordered due to pressure from the community the library serves. External censorship occurs at the community level where the community culture pushes for the censorship of LGBTQ+ materials. Lastly, institutional censorship occurs at the classification level where classification models such as the Dewey Decimal System or subject headings may not provide accurate representation for LGBTQ+ materials. In order to put an end to these forms of censorship, trained and certified librarians must act as agents of change, committing to their due diligence to provide information to all members of their communities.

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Butler, Julia. "Law Libraries in Australia - Government Libraries." International Journal of Legal Information 28, no. 2 (2000): 429–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0731126500009203.

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Since the mid 1980's to the present time there has been an unprecedented attitudinal change by governments, both at the federal and state levels, regardless of political persuasion, towards the role of the public sector. There has been a sustained policy to wind back the size of the Public Service across the board.

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Steele, Jennifer Elaine. "Cases of Censorship in Public Libraries: Loudoun County, VA." Public Library Quarterly 39, no. 5 (August 27, 2019): 434–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01616846.2019.1660755.

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Lajeunesse, Marcel. "Public Libraries Reading in Quebec: A History of Censorship Freedom." Library & Information History 28, no. 1 (March 2012): 26–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1758348911z.0000000002.

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Klooster, Brian Williams-Van. "Censorship of Visually Challenging Art Monographs in American Public Academic Libraries." Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 25, no. 2 (October 2006): 40–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/adx.25.2.27949439.

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Robb, George. "Propaganda, Censorship, and Book Drives: The Newark Public Library in World War I." New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5, no. 1 (January 24, 2019): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/njs.v5i1.150.

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This article examines the activities of the Newark Public Library during World War I as a means of highlighting the significant role American libraries played in promoting the nation’s war effort. During the war public libraries were usually the most important information centers in their communities. They distributed books, pamphlets, and posters in support of a wide range of government initiatives, they organized war-related exhibits and classes, and they collected vast amounts of reading material for libraries at military camps. Newark’s chief librarians, John Cotton Dana and Beatrice Winser, oversaw many such patriotic initiatives, but they also became involved in more controversial campaigns to employ women librarians at military camps and to resist wartime calls for censorship of unpatriotic literature.

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Audunson, Ragnar, Svanhild Aabø, Roger Blomgren, Sunniva Evjen, Henrik Jochumsen, Håkon Larsen, Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen, Andreas Vårheim, Jamie Johnston, and Masanori Koizumi. "Public libraries as an infrastructure for a sustainable public sphere." Journal of Documentation 75, no. 4 (July 8, 2019): 773–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-10-2018-0157.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the shaping of public libraries as an infrastructure for a sustainable public sphere through a comprehensive literature review. Design/methodology/approach In order to capture the whole picture of this research field, we utilize comprehensive review methodology. The major research questions are: first, to what extent have research topics regarding libraries as public sphere institutions expanded and diversified? Which theoretical perspectives inform research? Second, which challenges and topics does the research focus upon, such as: social inclusion and equal access to information; digital inequalities; censorship and freedom of expression; and access to places and spaces with a democratic potential and the role of libraries in that respect? Third, what influence has social media exerted on libraries in the context of the expanding digital world? Findings The authors identified mainly four themes regarding the public library and public sphere, such as: the importance of public libraries by using Habermas’s theory; the function of meeting places within the public library and setting those places in the center of the library in order to enhance and encourage democracy; the relationship between social inclusion and public libraries and its functions in current society such as diminishing the digital divide; and the emerging electronic resources and arena of SNS in public libraries and utilizing them to reach citizens. Originality/value Capturing the recent history of this research field through comprehensive review is valuable.

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Rajagopalan, Priyadarsini, Hoang Thuy Ha Nguyen, and Andrew Carre. "Acoustic performance of contemporary public libraries: an evaluation of public libraries in Melbourne, Australia." Architectural Science Review 60, no. 2 (December 22, 2016): 104–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2016.1265483.

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Best, Rickey. "Censorship or Selection? Academic Library Holdings Of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2007." Education Libraries 33, no. 2 (September 19, 2017): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/el.v33i2.292.

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Academic libraries often serve as the protectors of challenged books. Pressure on public libraries to remove controversial works can and often does result in the restriction of access or removal of the work from those libraries shelves. Academic libraries, however, operate with a stronger sense of academic and intellectual freedom. To analyze how well academic libraries do in acquiring and making available books which appear on the American Library Association‘s Challenged Books list, the list for 2007 was analyzed in WorldCat to determine the number and overall percentage of academic libraries holding the titles. Overall, 29.94% of the libraries holding challenged books were academic libraries.

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Colaric, Susan. "Children, Public Libraries, and the Internet: Is it Censorship or Good Service." North Carolina Libraries 61, no. 1 (January 21, 2009): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3776/ncl.v61i1.196.

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The American Library Association (ALA), with its absolutist view ofFirst Amendment rights, is doing a disservice to young library patrons.By insisting on open Internet access, regardless of age, the ALAis sending children into an information abyss that will most likely resultin confusion, frustration, and poor research skills. ALA supports itsposition by saying that it is the parents’ role to monitor their children’sInternet use, but the problem of unaccompanied children in the libraryhas been a concern of librarians for years.

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Riaubienė, Arida. "Prohibited Press in the Central State Bookshop in 1919–1940." Knygotyra 77 (December 30, 2021): 277–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/knygotyra.2021.77.95.

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This article analyses the issues of collecting and storing illegal publications and those confiscated by censorship authorities in the Central State Bookshop. It describes the structure of the military and other general censorship institutions, which sent the prohibited press to the Central State Bookshop. The aim of the study is to establish the approximate date of commencement of the activities of the department that stored confiscated by censorship or illegally issued publications, and several lists of publications prohibited by censorship and transmitted by the CSB are discussed. It is worth noting that until the 1940s, libraries were also called bookshops. In 1936, after the promulgation of the Law on Public Libraries, the Central State Bookshop became the Central State Library, and its departments became state public libraries. Between 1919–1922, under the management of Eduardas Volteris, the collection and storage of illegal and censored publications at the Central State Bookshop became a matter of interest. The legal deposit was the key and constant source of acquisition of the collections of the Central State Bookshop. In 1919 and 1935, the press laws stipulated how many mandatory copies had to be delivered to county governors or simply to state institutions. However, illegal and confiscated publications were not included in the legal deposit. The main aim of the library was to collect and store all publications published in Lithuania and by Lithuanian publishers abroad. Therefore, it was important for the library to compile a complete set of the current press. To obtain prohibited titles, the library cooperated with the structural units of the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of the Interior responsible for the supervision of the press. In various historical periods, unequal attention was paid to the compilation of censorship-restricted press in the Central State Bookshop. Until the 1930s, there was an intensive correspondence between war censors and the Press and Societies Division of the Department of Civil Protection about sending and collecting prohibited press in the Central State Bookstore. During c. 1920–1921, illegal and confiscated publications began to be collected in a separate office called the “secret division”. In the 1940s, censorship institutions sent lists of prohibited press of various volumes to the library. After reviewing the publications on these lists, no signs of censorship could be found. Records of censorship office provenances and censorship officers were found in individual publications that were not included in the lists of prohibited books. Although the publications confiscated by censorship authorities were stored in the library of the University of Lithuania, and in the library of Vytautas Magnus University since 1930, CSB was the only library in the interwar period in which special attention was paid to the issues of collecting prohibited press. Use of the prohibited press was restricted. These titles were not open to general public; only employees of ministries and members of the Seimas could read it. The prohibited press could serve scientific research and press statistics.

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Atton, Chris. "Book Review: The limits of tolerance: censorship and intellectual freedom in public libraries." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 30, no. 4 (December 1998): 270. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096100069803000408.

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Bowen, Jennifer. "Take your partners: Media, government and public participation in the 1930s campaigns against censorship in Australia." Australian Journalism Review 42, no. 2 (November 1, 2020): 279–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00040_1.

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Censorship has had a long tradition in Australia, affecting books, films, theatre and artworks. In the 1930s, opposition to it began to be organized: this was initially a reaction to the banning of imported print material on the grounds of ‘indecency’ or sedition, but it was followed by protests against the political interference of radio broadcasts. These campaigns for freedom of expression on the air and in print invoked similar principles, as well as sharing leadership and tactics; while newspapers alerted the public to the issue of censorship, such commentary was also deployed to influence perceptions of the changing media landscape brought about by the development of public broadcasting. This article argues that 1930s activism over censorship prepared the ground for the expectation of impartial news reporting by the public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Commission. It also demonstrates the advantage of considering diverse forms of media in tandem and sheds additional light on the role of the public in pursuit of the right of Australian citizens to hear opinion free from government interference and proprietorial diktat.

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Șerbănuță, Claudia. "A public library cannot live on books alone: A lesson from history." IFLA Journal 45, no. 1 (November 22, 2018): 34–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0340035218806533.

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For almost half a century Romania was under a totalitarian regime. In times of severe censorship and information control the communist regime promoted public libraries. This paper will present the main phases of the public library system development and discuss how the state’s emphasis on providing large collections of books influenced library services. As part of an oral history project, this paper will use memories of people who worked in public libraries of various sizes in the 1970s and the 1980s, archival documents and secondary sources to contribute to a more nuanced discussion about the recent history of Romanian public libraries. What were the phases of the development of the national library system and how important was the library collection for the institutional survival of the public library? The paper will also discuss the collection development policy and contrast it with the impoverished professional development within the library system.

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Braida, Lodovica. "Censure et circulation du livre en Italie au XVIIIe siècle." Journal of Modern European History 3, no. 1 (March 2005): 81–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.17104/1611-8944_2005_1_81.

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Censorship and Book Circulation in Eighteenth-Century Italy During the eighteenth century some Italian governments changed the regulations concerning censorship, and asserted the state's role in the control of the production and circulation of books. Paradoxically, the existence of different regulations for censorship in Italy revealed itself to be an instrument of corrosion of the control mechanisms by making the access to forbidden books less difficult than in countries in which there was a centralized control system. In the years comprised between the 1760s and the 1780s there had indeed been transformations similar to those of other European countries, pointing towards that «revolution in readership » which had increased the occasions for having access to books; multipling the number of readers, discovering a new public, which was to have great importance especially in the nineteenth century: women readers, which publishers addressed with fashion journals and almanacs. In some Italian cities the opportunities to read had increased in the eighteenth century: in public libraries, in coffee houses, in literary societies, in the cabinets de lecture books and newspapers could be browsed and read without having to buy them. The urban guidebooks and the récits de voyage of foreign travellers (as the Spanish Jesuit Juan Andrés, and as Jerôme de de Lalande, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) are important sources that provide informations about cultural transformations as the opening of libraries, book collections both privat and public, for the selected public and the opening of new reading occasions for a wider public.

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Schaefer. "Interned for the Duration of the War: St. Louis Public Library Censorship during World War I." Libraries: Culture, History, and Society 3, no. 1 (2019): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/libraries.3.1.0023.

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Laet, Maria Aparecida. "Public libraries, librarians and censorship in Brazil during the Vargas Era and Military Regime." Rumores 5, no. 10 (December 19, 2011): 357. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-677x.rum.2011.51269.

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Review of the book LEITÃO, Bárbara Júlia Menezello. Bibliotecas públicas, bibliotecários e censura na Era Vargas e Regime Militar. São Paulo: Interciência, 2011. (available only in portuguese)

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Wakeling, Simon, Jane Garner, Philip Hider, Hamid Jamali, Jessie Lymn, Yazdan Mansourian, and Holly Randell-Moon. "‘The challenge now is for us to remain relevant’: Australian public libraries and the COVID-19 crisis." IFLA Journal 48, no. 1 (November 14, 2021): 138–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03400352211054115.

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The COVID-19 crisis has had a significant impact on public libraries around the world. In Australia, almost all public libraries experienced some period of building closure, requiring libraries to adapt their services and delivery models. This article reports findings from a large-scale survey of public library managers in Australia, which was conducted in August 2020. In particular, it presents the results of a thematic analysis of the participants’ free-text responses to open questions asked as part of the survey. This analysis reveals important insights relating to responses to library closures, staffing issues, new and expanded services and programmes, relationships with parent bodies, and the role of public libraries during the crisis and beyond. While public libraries are perceived by managers to have been agile and adaptable, and to have utilised technology effectively, the findings clearly demonstrate the value to users of library buildings, with important consequences for understanding the role of public libraries.

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Willard, Patricia. "Public Sector Reform in Australia and its Impact on Libraries." International Information & Library Review 27, no. 4 (December 1995): 359–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10572317.1995.10762381.

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Sloan, Stephen. "Regional Differences in Collecting Freethought Books in American Public Libraries: A Case of Self-Censorship?" Library Quarterly 82, no. 2 (April 2012): 183–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/664577.

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Hooper, Robert A. "When the barking stopped: Censorship, self-censorship and spin in Fiji." Pacific Journalism Review 19, no. 1 (May 31, 2013): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v19i1.237.

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After four military coups in 20 years, Fiji is poised to return to democracy in elections promised for 2014. An emergency decree placing censors in newsrooms was lifted in January 2012, but with domestic media gagged by lawsuits and Fiji Television threatened with closure for covering opposition figures, a pervasive climate of self-censorship imposed by government decrees is enforced by a government-appointed judiciary. As elections draw closer, the illusion of press freedom is framed by highly paid American ‘spin doctors’ from a prominent Washington DC public relations and lobbying firm. Paralysis in the newsroom is reflected at Fiji’s premier University of the South Pacific, once a leader in journalism education. The author taught television journalism at the university and trained reporters for Fiji TV in the 1990s, but returned to find Fiji’s media and higher education in a crisis reflecting the decline of Western influence in the Pacific. Student grievances over harassment and expulsion in retaliation for independent reporting echo the deceit and dysfunction unfolding on the national stage. As traditional allies Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States anguish over sanctions, unprecedented visits to the Fijian government by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and incoming Chinese Premier Xi Jinping portend diplomatic rivalry and raise the stakes for a fragile Pacific nation.

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McKee, Alan. "Censorship of Sexually Explicit Materials: What Do Consumers of Pornography Have to Say?" Media International Australia 120, no. 1 (August 2006): 35–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0612000108.

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This article attempts to bring a new set of voices into public debates about censorship in Australia — those of consumers of pornography. Forty-six consumers — chosen to provide the most diverse range of voices across gender, age, sexuality, income, place of residence and state/territory — were interviewed in detail. Interviewees consistently distinguished between beneficial and harmful pornography. The main issue was consent, with child pornography, bestiality and violent pornography being singled out for condemnation. The interviewees noted that public debates about pornography in Australia tend to favour conservative religious positions. All interviewees agreed that censorship was necessary; they particularly focused on the need to keep sexually explicit materials away from children. They evinced a strong distrust of politicians and bureaucrats, and mostly presented a classical liberal line. Several of the consumers had children of their own: all of these interviewees argued that their children should not see sexually explicit material and had strategies in place to ensure that their own did not.

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ANYAEGBU, DR MERCY IFEYINWA, and Umejiaku, Nneka Obiamaka. "INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AND CENSORSHIP IN THE EYES OF NIGERIAN LAW." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY 15, no. 11 (August 25, 2016): 7182–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/ijct.v15i11.4391.

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Intellectual freedom according to Article 19 of United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the right to freedom of thought and of expression of thought. Intellectual freedom guarantees everyone the right to freedom of opinion and expression. This right includes the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impact information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Thus intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas. Whereas censorship is the suppression of ideas and information that individuals, groups or government officials find objectionable or dangerous. Censors usually achieve this through state powers via public institutions such as schools, libraries, information centres among others. Through the instrumentality of the law, such public institutions are prohibited from making censored materials easily accessible to the public or to targeted audience. This paper x-rayed those international and Nigerian laws that encourage or impinge access to information for one and all in Nigeria. It also made recommendations that will enhance easy flow of information to all information seekers in Nigeria.

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Fernandez, Beatriz F. "True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries Revised ed. by Valerie Nye and Kathy Barco." Public Services Quarterly 8, no. 3 (July 1, 2012): 247–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15228959.2012.700237.

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Lear, Bernadette A. "Were Tom and Huck On-Shelf? Public Libraries, Mark Twain, and the Formation of Accessible Canons, 1869––1910." Nineteenth-Century Literature 64, no. 2 (September 1, 2009): 189–224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2009.64.2.189.

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Public libraries are "accessible canons" for their communities. As part of their efforts to connect people and ideas, librarians purchase classic and bestselling books from "selective," "personal," "nonce," and other canons. They also create bibliographies, professional standards, and other tools that help shape reading habits. Thus libraries embody complex, ongoing processes of canon using and canon forming. This essay illustrates the canonical activities of American public libraries during the early years of the profession. It describes the American Library Association Catalog, local finding lists and accession records, and other primary sources that shed light on collection building during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) as a case study, it presents statistics on library ownership during the author's lifetime from more than seven hundred communities across the United States. Tables focus on nine titles: The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson. Statistical analysis reveals that "controversial" items such as Huckleberry Finn were widely available in Gilded-Age and Progressive-era public libraries, thus calling into question some assumptions about censorship of Twain's work. Also, library holdings of some titles varied by decade and geography, demonstrating that libraries implemented "national" and "recognized" canons unevenly. In sum, the essay shifts attention toward the operationalization of literary canons and provides empirical evidence of Mark Twain's presence in the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century literary landscape.

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DOMINTE, Corina. "The Censorship of Books in the Library of “Ştefan cel Mare” National College from Suceava (1860-1990)." Analele Universităţii "Dunărea de Jos" din Galaţi Fascicula XIX Istorie 19 (June 8, 2021): 93–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.35219/https://doi.org/10.35219/history.2020.06.

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This paper aims at presenting the censorship of books and documents at the library from the first high school from southern Bucovina – Griechisch-orientalische kaiserlich-königliche Obergymnasium in Suczawa, a typical high school in which German was the tuition language, founded by imperial decree on the 30th of June 1860, today known as Colegiul Național “Ștefan cel Mare” from Suceava. This study is based on original archive documents, previous studies on the topic and documents from the school library. Relying on historical research approaches, the phenomenon of book censorship is analysed during all political regimes that succeeded in the nearly 160 years of existence of the school library. The paper points out to the restrictions imposed during the Austrian rule (1860-1918), the cleansing and even destruction of the most valuable books belonging to the Romanian heritage during the totalitarian regimes after the Great Union of 1918, the reorganization of the special collections, the restriction of the public accessibility to certain titles. This paper, alongside previous ones on the same topic, is meant to contribute to the understanding of the complex phenomenon of censorship in Romanian libraries.

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DOMINTE, Corina. "The Censorship of Books in the Library of “Ştefan cel Mare” National College from Suceava (1860-1990)." Analele Universităţii "Dunărea de Jos" din Galaţi Fascicula XIX Istorie 19 (June 8, 2021): 93–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.35219/history.2020.06.

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This paper aims at presenting the censorship of books and documents at the library from the first high school from southern Bucovina – Griechisch-orientalische kaiserlich-königliche Obergymnasium in Suczawa, a typical high school in which German was the tuition language, founded by imperial decree on the 30th of June 1860, today known as Colegiul Național “Ștefan cel Mare” from Suceava. This study is based on original archive documents, previous studies on the topic and documents from the school library. Relying on historical research approaches, the phenomenon of book censorship is analysed during all political regimes that succeeded in the nearly 160 years of existence of the school library. The paper points out to the restrictions imposed during the Austrian rule (1860-1918), the cleansing and even destruction of the most valuable books belonging to the Romanian heritage during the totalitarian regimes after the Great Union of 1918, the reorganization of the special collections, the restriction of the public accessibility to certain titles. This paper, alongside previous ones on the same topic, is meant to contribute to the understanding of the complex phenomenon of censorship in Romanian libraries.

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Lockyer-Benzie, Maureena. "Social inclusion and the City of Swan public libraries in Western Australia." Health Information and Libraries Journal 21, s2 (September 2004): 36–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-3324.2004.00519.x.

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Sullivan, Doreen. "Characteristics of E-Mail Reference Services in Selected Public Libraries, Victoria, Australia." Reference Librarian 41, no. 85 (June 30, 2004): 51–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j120v41n85_05.

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Kelly, Matthew. "Collection Development Policies in Public Libraries in Australia: A Qualitative Content Analysis." Public Library Quarterly 34, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 44–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01616846.2015.1000783.

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Stilwell, Christine. "Information as currency, democracy, and public libraries." Library Management 39, no. 5 (June 11, 2018): 295–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lm-08-2017-0078.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to endorse the notion that information is the currency of democracy and explore the question of the public library’s role in promoting democracy through the provision of access to information. Design/methodology/approach A review of the literature and a case study are used. Findings From the early days of the public library, there has been a certain democratic paternalism in librarians’ views on public libraries, and ambivalence about the extent to which these libraries have provided information to the whole population. Despite this finding, the paper explores the public library’s role in providing information; the currency of information. Public libraries can contribute to the renewal of a democratic public sphere by providing free and ready access to knowledge and information, as well as safe and trusted social spaces for the exchange of ideas, creativity, and decision making. Originality/value The paper examines material from the dawn of the public library to current concerns about the role of these libraries in providing access to information, in revitalising citizenship and fostering democracy. It draws on the well-known example of the birth of democracy in South Africa and on discussions of public library neutrality and activism in contemporary France, describing limits on the achievements of libraries in these countries in the context of some current, promising examples from the USA, Britain, Denmark, and Australia.

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Waller, Vivienne. "Legitimacy for large public libraries in the digital age." Library Review 57, no. 5 (May 23, 2008): 372–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00242530810875159.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to critically analyse recent developments in the relationship of large public libraries with digital technologies, suggesting a way of rethinking the future of large public libraries.Design/methodology/approachThis paper bases its critical analysis on a review of the literature and reference to specific cases. Historical quotes preceding sections augment the argument that many of the current concerns about digital technologies are not new issues for libraries.FindingsIssues around library take up of digital technology are continuations of debates that have occurred throughout the history of public libraries about the role of the library. In Australia, library policy makers are focusing on technology and an imagined user in an effort to prove the legitimacy of large public libraries to funding bodies, the library profession and library users. Such attempts seem doomed to fail.Practical implicationsPublic libraries need to be clear about their purpose as publicly funded institutions in the digital age. This requires a renewed understanding of a library's publics and a critical understanding of the nature of services available using digital technologies.Originality/valueThis paper presents an alternative way of thinking about the future of large public libraries, with much of the discussion also relevant to local public libraries.

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Lemon, Barbara, Kerry Blinco, and Brendan Somes. "Building NED: Open Access to Australia’s Digital Documentary Heritage." Publications 8, no. 2 (April 8, 2020): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/publications8020019.

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This article charts the development of Australia’s national edeposit service (NED), from concept to reality. A world-first collaboration between the national, state and territory libraries of Australia, NED was launched in 2019 and transformed our approach to legal deposits in Australia. NED is more than a repository, operating as a national online service for depositing, preserving and accessing Australian electronic publications, with benefits to publishers, libraries and the public alike. This article explains what makes NED unique in the context of global research repository infrastructure, outlining the ways in which NED member libraries worked to balance user needs with technological capacity and the variations within nine sets of legal deposit legislation.

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Uraeva, I. V. "Dynamics of the library system in Tambov region (1930s - early 1940s)." Bibliosphere, no. 2 (June 30, 2017): 23–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2017-2-23-31.

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Significant changes in the library network development of Tambov region have occurred as a result of reforming the administrative-territorial division. The counties and townships abolition has led to a change of the libraries typology. The Central Provincial Library was first transformed into the Central District Library (before 1934), then - into the Central Municipal one (until 1937), and, finally, to the Regional one (in 1937). A specific feature of the period under review was opening a central library in each district (with a network of mobile libraries), as well as the organizing stationary libraries at enterprises and large state- and collective-farms. Urban population was mostly served by a network of trade union libraries, rural inhabitants - by a library network of the People's Commissariat of Education. In 1940 the number of public libraries in Tambov region reached 552, including 453 ones in the countryside. The network of public (mass) libraries included the following libraries: state district ones - 42, state municipal ones - 4, state rural ones - 102, state children ones - 7, village state public library and reading rooms - 158, public libraries at the regional culture houses and other club facilities - 12, collective-farm ones - 56, trade union ones - 131, public libraries of other agencies and organizations - 27. Strengthening ideological pressure on library services resulted in the tightening of censorship, mass withdrawal of the ideologically harmful literature. Collections of seized books marked «do not give masses» were created in the libraries as special funds. New editions entered the region in a limited number. In general, in the 1930s the book composition in the library stocks of Tambov region is characterized by the following data by branches of knowledge: anti-religious literature was 2,2%, social studies - 19,5%, natural science - 4,6%, applied sciences - 6,2%, agriculture - 5,1%, history and geography - 6,5%, fiction - 28,7%, others - 27,2%. The total library fund had not enough fiction and books on natural history, book sections on technology and agriculture needed accession. By the beginning of 1941 the amount of the public libraries fund in Tambov region was totaled 843,948 copies. To improve significantly the level of library service the nation-wide measures have been taken, among them were the following: Library Campaign, All-Union Library Census, All-Union competition for the best area on performing the librarianship in the countryside. They were aimed at drawing public attention to the serious problems existed in the librarianship. However, the Library Campaign was not properly developed in Tambov region. Scanty funding, general unpreparedness, inadequate qualifications of librarians and other factors affected negatively to achieve this goal.

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Karoyeva, Tetiana. "Tactics of books acquisition for public libraries of Right-Bank Ukraine before introduction of library censorship (1866-1884)." Rukopisna ta knižkova spadŝina Ukraïni, no. 27 (August 11, 2021): 221–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/rksu.27.221.

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Rosenthal, Marjorie. "Writing Library Policy to Avoid Challenges in Jewish School Libraries." Judaica Librarianship 8, no. 1 (September 1, 1994): 116–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.14263/2330-2976.1249.

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The issue of intellectual freedom and its maintenance under the onslaught of those whose personal priorities and agendas dictate the censorship of library materials, is not one that is confined to any one type of institution. Challenges to textbooks and library books have increased alarmingly in the last few years in public and private, religious as well as secular, schools and libraries in our society to the point where librarians must question the possibility of controversy in titles on the Holocaust, along with the more traditional confrontations over sex and witchcraft. What is the psychology behind this insidious trend? What can one do when one's library materials are challenged either by members of the community or by administrators? Who can one call upon for help? Most important, how can this problem be avoided altogether, or defused when it does occur? This paper contains the answers to all of these questions. In addition, it suggests how to actually begin writing a policy for materials selection which contains the mechanisms for dealing with attacks on our First Amendment freedoms.

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FOTHERINGHAM, RICHARD. "Alfred Dampier's ‘Shakespearean Fridays’." Theatre Research International 44, no. 02 (July 2019): 135–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883319000026.

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Throughout the British Empire, visiting and immigrating professional actors ‘from the old country’ realized and reinforced for settler cultures a dominant imperial identity. In Australia, Alfred Dampier (1843–1908) and his company exploited the opportunities that this cultural milieu offered by staging austere, ‘reverential’, well-elocuted Shakespearean productions which raised their artistic status and asserted their respectability while enabling Dampier to offer as well, without censorship or public condemnation, dramatizations of sensational and controversial bushranger and convict narratives.

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Sinitsyna, Olga. "Censorship of art books in the Soviet Union and its effect on the arts and on art libraries." Art Libraries Journal 24, no. 1 (1999): 4–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200019258.

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Although official censorship in the Soviet Union ceased over ten years ago, the effects in art and art libraries are still felt. Censored books were marked with a hexagon and relegated to closed stacks, which for many years were off limits to the public and library staff alike. Some of the banned material in the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature is analysed here in an attempt to establish the reason why certain items were seen by the authorities as too harmful to be acceptable for general circulation. The fate of the second “enemy” perceived by the Soviet censors, the original works of art and architecture, is also described.

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Smeaton, Kathleen, and Kate Davis. "Using social media to create a participatory library service: an Australian study." Library and Information Research 38, no. 117 (June 7, 2014): 54–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/lirg593.

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Public libraries are increasingly using social media in an attempt to meet users in their own spaces. Social media can be useful when used to create a participatory library service emphasising engagement with users. However, there has been little empirical investigation into the success of social media use by public libraries. This article reports on the findings of a research project that explored the use of social media by Australian public libraries. Two organisations participated in case studies that involved interviews, document analysis, and social media observation. To contextualise the use of social media in the case study organisations, a sub-study was undertaken involving observation of an additional 24 public libraries across Australia. This article focuses on the findings from the observation sub-study. It presents and applies a methodology for classifying social media content to determine whether the sample libraries’ social media use is indicative of a participatory approach to service delivery. This article explores how a range of social media platforms are used by the sample libraries and considers what best practice in participatory library service looks like. The two case study organisations’ use of social media is highlighted as exemplary practice.

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Java, Oskars, and Ieva Gundare. "The role of the National Library of Latvia in creating synergies between documentary heritage and society." Sabiedrība un kultūra: rakstu krājums = Society and Culture: conference proceedings, no. XXIII (August 16, 2021): 108–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/sk.2021.23.108.

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The purpose of the study entitled „Exploring documentary heritage for building synergies between research and society” is to study previously unexplored aspects of the documentary heritage, including the part of the legacy that has previously been subject to censorship and has therefore not been studied in depth. When viewing the documentary heritage as historical evidence, it will reveal previously unknown layers and stories of history, thereby directly influencing history and linking national identity to European identity. In order for these layers and stories to reach the public, the people should initially be informed of the existence of such information, which, in turn, could create awareness and to encourage action. This article deals with the existing experience of National Library of Latvia (NLL) and other libraries in en-suring that the new information is brought to the public. Society is complex and differs from country to country, therefore there is no common recipe for libraries for successful dissemination of the new infor-mation. The authors conclude that the most appropriate technique for understanding the local user is to study the user experience, which will become a continuation of this research study.

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Fitzgerald, Brendan, and Frances Savage. "Public libraries in Victoria, Australia: an overview of current ICT developments, challenges, and issues." OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives 20, no. 1 (March 2004): 24–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10650750410527304.

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Boaden, Sue. "Education for art librarianship in Australia." Art Libraries Journal 19, no. 2 (1994): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200008725.

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The growth of art history and art practice courses in Australia has been remarkable over the last 20 years. Unfortunately training for art librarianship has not matched this growth. There are eleven universities in Australia offering graduate degrees and post-graduate diplomas in librarianship but none offer specific courses leading towards a specialisation in art librarianship. ARLIS/ANZ provides opportunities for training and education. Advances in scholarly art research and publishing in Australia, the development of Australian-related electronic art databases, the growth of specialist collections in State and public libraries, and the increased demand by the general community for art-related information, confirm the need for well-developed skills in the management and dissemination of art information.

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Wagner, Robin. "What Munn Missed: The Queensland Schools of Arts." Queensland Review 20, no. 2 (October 30, 2013): 187–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2013.20.

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American Librarian Ralph Munn's historic tour of Australian libraries in 1934 is well documented. Along with Ernest Pitt, Chief Librarian of the State Library of Victoria, he spent nearly ten weeks travelling from Sydney and back again, visiting libraries in all the state capitals and many regional towns throughout the country. Munn's trip was funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which was then, through its Dominions fund, turning attention to philanthropic opportunities in the Antipodes. The resulting report, Australian Libraries: A Survey of Conditions and Suggestions for their Improvement (commonly referred to as the Munn–Pitt Report) is often credited with initiating the public library movement in Australia.

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Green, Bill. "Carnegie in Australia: philanthropic power and public education in the early twentieth century." History of Education Review 48, no. 1 (June 3, 2019): 61–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/her-04-2019-0012.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline a reconceptualised view of public education, with specific reference to early twentieth-century Australia, and to revisit the significance of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in this period. Further, in this regard, the paper proposes a neo-Foucaultian notion of philanthropic power, as an explanatory and analytical principle, with possible implications for thinking anew about the role and influence of American philanthropic organisations in the twentieth century. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on mainly secondary sources but also works with primary sources gathered from relevant archives, including that of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). Findings The paper concludes that the larger possibilities associated with the particular view of public education outlined here, referring to both public school and public libraries, were constrained by the emergence and consolidation of an increasingly professionalised view of education and schooling. Research limitations/implications The influence of the Carnegie Corporation of New York on early twentieth-century Australian education has been increasingly acknowledged and documented in recent historical research. More recently, Carnegie has been drawn into an interdisciplinary perspective on philanthropy and public culture in Australia. This paper seeks to add to such work by looking at schools and libraries as interconnected yet loosely coupled aspects of what can be understood as, in effect, a re-conceived public education, to a significant degree sponsored by the Corporation. Originality/value The paper draws upon but seeks to extend and to some extent re-orient existing historical research on the relationship between Australian education and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Its originality lies in its exploration of a somewhat different view of public education and the linkage it suggests in this regard with a predominantly print-centric public culture in Australia, in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Ritchie, Ann, and Beth Sowter. "Availability and accessibility of evidence-based information resources provided by medical libraries in Australia." Australian Health Review 23, no. 1 (2000): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah000077.

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This article reports on the results of an exploratory survey of the availability andaccessibility of evidence-based information resources provided by medical libraries inAustralia. Although barriers impede access to evidence-based information for hospitalclinicians, the survey revealed that Medline and Cinahl are available in over 90% offacilities. In most cases they are widely accessible via internal networks and the Internet.The Cochrane Library is available in 69% of cases. The Internet is widely accessible andmost libraries provide access to some full-text, electronic journals. Strategies for overcomingrestrictions and integrating information resources with clinical workflow are being pursued.State, regional and national public and private consortia are developing agreementsutilising on-line technology. These could produce cost savings and more equitable accessto a greater range of evidence-based resources.

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Wyatt, Danielle, Scott Mcquire, and Danny Butt. "Libraries as redistributive technology: From capacity to culture in Queensland’s public library network." New Media & Society 20, no. 8 (November 16, 2017): 2934–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444817738235.

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Australia is currently rolling out one of the most expensive and ambitious infrastructure projects in the nation’s history. The National Broadband Network is promoted as a catalyst for far-reaching changes in Australia’s economy, governmental service provision, society and culture. However, it is evident that desired dividends, such as greater social engagement, enhanced cultural awareness and increased civic and political participation, do not flow automatically from mere technical connection to the network. This article argues that public institutions play a vital role in redistributing technological capacity to enable emerging forms of social and cultural participation. In particular, we examine public libraries as significant but often overlooked sites in the evolving dynamic between digital technology, new cultural practices and social relations. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork across the public library network of the state of Queensland, we attend to the strategies and approaches libraries are adopting in response to a digital culture.

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Lo, Patrick, Bradley Allard, Kevin K. W. Ho, Joyce Chao-chen Chen, Daisuke Okada, Andrew Stark, James Henri, and Chung-chin Lai. "Librarians’ perceptions of educational values of comic books: A comparative study between Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Australia and New Zealand." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 51, no. 4 (March 29, 2018): 1103–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961000618763979.

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Comic books are becoming increasingly popular in the field of education. In the past, comic books were excluded from school libraries and classrooms. However, with the resurgence in the popularity of comic books and students’ increased demands for them, they are now considered as recreational reading with educational value. In response to this, school libraries have begun collecting comic books and including them as part of their regular collections. This research paper reflects on the current situation of comic books in primary and middle school library collections and examines school librarians’ perceptions towards educational values of comics. The investigation was launched in Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia and Japan – making comparisons amongst different levels (primary school and secondary school), and different types (public school and private school) of schools in five different countries. Questionnaire surveys were sent to selected school librarians and were the main method of data collection. A total number of 683 responses were collected for this study. Research results include librarians’ attitudes towards comic books in school libraries, adolescent readers’ use of school libraries, their reading and borrowing practices, as well as other problems encountered with the on-going maintenance of comic books as part of the school libraries’ regular collections.

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Nero, Lorraine M. "Manuscript libraries and archival description in the Caribbean." New Library World 116, no. 5/6 (May 11, 2015): 289–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/nlw-08-2014-0098.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the indexing method used by Caribbean libraries to describe special collections and manuscripts. Design/methodology/approach – Various types of finding aids spanning 1960-2014 are used to show the pattern of descriptions adopted by the librarians. At the same time, the factors which have sustained the approach at national libraries and university libraries are highlighted. Findings – The paper concludes that while the indexing approach may be labour-intensive, this practice is perceived as developing a national and regional documentary heritage. The materials used for this study are primarily accessible to the public inclusive of published guides and online databases. Originality/value – The literature is replete with theories and cases from places such as the UK, the USA and Australia, this paper presents a perspective on the development of archival description in the Caribbean.

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