Document Type
Article
Abstract
Should 'Sex' be available at the public library? The issue of Madonna's book and the real purpose of the public library rages on in this three-way debate between a critic of "give-'em-what-they-want" selection policies, the director and trustees of a small public library, and a library historian.
Disciplines
Information and Library Science | Library and Information Science
Recommended Citation
Neavill, Gordon B.; Ring, Daniel F.; and Dauphinais, Helaine, "Has the American public library lost its purpose?" (1994). School of Library and Information Science Faculty Research Publications. Paper 67.
http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/slisfrp/67
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Comments
This article is the publisher's PDF version, previously appearing in Public Libraries 33 (July/August 1994), pp. 191-196.