Nevada Library Association

Nevada Library Association

Intellectual Freedom Handbook, 1999

Censorship and Challenges

Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment”
— ALA Library Bill of Rights

We uphold the principles of intellectual freedom and resist all efforts to censor library resources.”
— ALA Code of Ethics

If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”
— Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”
— Noam Chomsky

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”
— UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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The Censor: Motives and Tactics

(http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/challengesupport/dealing/censormotives.cfm)
( From the Intellectual Freedom Manual (sixth edition, Office for Intellectual Freedom, ALA, Chicago, IL, 2002, pp. 366–369.) )

Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A (http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/basics/intellectual.cfm#ifpoint3)
Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q&A is available as a brochure (ISBN 8389-7778-2) (1-5 @ $2.00, 6-100 @ $1.50, 101+ @ $1.00). Call Bryan Campbell at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4220, or contact him at bcampbell@ala.org

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