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- Title
International Harmony: Threat or Menace? U.S. Youth Services Librarians and Cold War Censorship, 1946-1955.
- Authors
Jenkins, Christine
- Abstract
Discusses the subjection of youth services librarians in the United States during the Cold War to demands from political pressure groups to remove or restrict books and other library materials viewed as pro-Communist propaganda. Strategies of resistance; Effectiveness in resisting pressure groups' censorship efforts; Maintenance of librarians' professional jurisdiction over the selection of books.
- Subjects
UNITED States; POLITICAL participation of librarians; PRESS &; propaganda; CIVIL disobedience; COMMUNIST propaganda
- Publication
Libraries & Culture, 2001, Vol 36, Issue 1, p116
- ISSN
0894-8631
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lac.2001.0009