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Libraries' Efforts to Preserve Intellectual Freedom and Baned Books

  • Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2004, 15(1), pp.193-216
  • Publisher : Journal Of The Korean Biblia Society For Library And Information Science
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Myeong-Hee Lee 1

1상명대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study focuses on “Intellectual Freedom” based on the fundamental principles of library services. Particularly, this paper pursues to the legal foundations of “the freedom of expression”. The American Library Association celebrates “the Banned Books Week” to draw attentions to the danger of banned books and censorship. This study also studies how “the banned books” are made by pursuing the definitions of “pornography” and “obscenity” in terms of the court’s opinions of The Supreme Court of the United States and Korea. Recently, the top three reasons for the “banned books”are considered to “be sexually explicit”, “contain offensive language” and “be unsuitable to age groups”.

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