Jane Roberts, Undark;
As
vanguards of intellectual freedom, public libraries face difficult questions
regarding what vaccine materials to make available. How to decide?
"The decision on what to make available to
library patrons — and what not to — would seem perilous territory for
America’s foundational repositories of ideas, though debates over library
collections are not new. Still, in an era beset by “fake news” and other
artifacts of the disinformation age, libraries (and librarians) may once again
find themselves facing difficult choices. One of the core values of librarianship, said Andrea
Jamison, a lecturer in library science at Valparaiso University in Indiana, is
upholding the principles of intellectual freedom — which include challenging
censorship. “We do want to make sure we are presenting information that is
accurate,” Jamison said. “But then the question becomes, who becomes the
determining factor?”"
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