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A thought-provoking article for all librarians!=20
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The following story appeared in The Globe Online:
Headline: Book-banning, real and imaginary
Date:     9/27/2001
Byline:=20=20=20

"    SO YOU'RE PROUD to be an American? Glad to live in this sweet land
of liberty, a country fanatics hate because of its freedom, pluralism,
and openness to new ideas? Well, just in time to pop that illusion, the
American Library Association is back this week with Banned Books Week,
its annual attempt to convince us that censorship is alive and well and
eating away at our intellectual right to choose. The Taliban are at the
gates, the ALA warns; can book-burning be far behind?"
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http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/270/oped/Book_banning_real_and_imaginary+=
.shtml
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