21st Century view of Intellectual Freedom in Libraries with Look Back to the 1970s

How does intellectual freedom in libraries in the 1970s compare with today?  Danuta A. Nitecki and Eileen G. Abels, asked Henry Cohen and me to write a chapter in the 30th anniversary edition of Advances in Librarianship.

Henry and I were asked to give a 21st century perspective on two key articles in Advances written in the 1970s:  Edwin Castagna's Censorship, Intellectual Freedom, and Libraries (1971) and  David Berninghausen's Intellectual Freedom in Librarianship: Advances and Retreats (1979).

Here is our chapter in a preprint form. If you'd like to see the final form complete with citable page numbers, see the Advances in Librarianship site at www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00652830

Preprint by Cohen and Minow as submitted to Advances in Librarianship, Volume 30, Henry Cohen and Mary Minow,  "Intellectual Freedom in Libraries: Then and Now," pp. 73-101 (2006), with permission from Elsevier, Cohen and Minow is here: PreprintIntellectualFreedomThenandNow.doc