Information Ethics Roundtable Bibliography
Sources on Censorship and Intellectual Freedom
Compiled by Tony Doyle


Altman, A. 2005. “The Right to get turned on: pornography, autonomy, equality.” In Contemporary debates in applied ethics. Eds. A. Cohen and C. Heath-Wellman.  Malden, MA: Blackwell: 223-35.

American Library Association. 1996. “The Freedom to read.” In Intellectual freedom manual, 5th ed. Chicago and London: American Library Association: 127-49.

American Library Association, Office for Intellectual Freedom. 1996. “Introduction.” In Intellectual freedom manual, 5th ed. Chicago and London: American Library Association: xiii–xviii.

Asheim, L. 1954. “Not censorship, but selection.” In Book selection and intellectual freedom: Proceedings of the second conference on intellectual freedom. Whittier, California. Ed. Frederick Mosher. Chicago: American Library Association: 90-99.

Asheim, L. 1983. “Selection and censorship: a reappraisal.” Wilson Library Bulletin 58 (November): 180–84.

Banks, M 1998. “Filtering the Net in libraries: The Case (mostly) in favor.” Computers in Libraries 18 (March): 50-54.

Beaver, W. 2000. “The Dilemma of Internet pornography.” Business and Society Review 105 (Fall): 373-82.

Bernighausen, D. 1972. “Social responsibility vs. The Library Bill of Rights.” Library Journal 97 (November 15): 3675-82.

Brison, S. 1998. “The Autonomy defense of free speech.” Ethics 108 (1): 312-39. 

Brison, S. 2005. “ 'The Price we pay'? Pornography and harm.” In Contemporary debates in applied ethics. Eds. A. Cohen and C. Heath-Wellman.  Malden, MA: Blackwell: 236-50.

Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. 1970. The Report. Washington: Superintendent of Documents.

Cox, P. 1997. “The Conceits of the law and the transmission of the indecent, obscene, and ugly.” Journal of Information Ethics 6: 22-34. 

Darling, R. 1978. “Access, intellectual freedom, and libraries.” Library Trends 27 (Winter ): 315-26.

Dworkin, R. 1977. Taking rights seriously. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 

Dworkin, R. 1985. A Matter of principle. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 

Dworkin, R. 1991. “Liberty and pornography.” New York Review of Books, 38, (14; August 15): 12-15. 

Dworkin, R. 1993. “Women and pornography.” New York Review of Books, 40, (17; October 21): 36- .

Dworkin, R. and MacKinnon, C. 1994. “Pornography: an exchange.” New York Review of Books: 41, (5; March 3).

Dyzenhaus, D. 1992. “John Stuart Mill and the harm of pornography.” Ethics 102 (3 ): 534-551.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org)

Etzioni, A. 1997. “The First Amendment is not an absolute even on the Internet.” Journal of Information Ethics 6 (Fall): 64-66.

Fallis, D. 2004. “Epistemic value theory and information ethics.” Minds and Machines 14: 101-117.

Fallis, D. 2006. “Social epistemology and information science.” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 40: 475-519.

Feinberg, J. 1985. Offense to others. New York: Oxford University Press.

Frické, M.; Mathiesen, K.; and Fallis, D. 2000. “The Ethical presuppositions behind the Library Bill of Rights.” Library Quarterly 29 (4): 468-91.

Fujimoto, J.1990. “Representing a document’s viewpoint in library collections: A Theme of obligation and resistance.” Library Resources and Technical Services 34 (1): 12-23. 

Geller, E. 1974. “Intellectual freedom: eternal principle or unanticipated consequence?” Library Journal 99 (May 15): 1364-67.

Gorman, R. 1986. “Selecting new right materials: A case study.” Collection Building 8 (3): 3–8.

Harmeyer, D. 1995. “Potential collection development bias: some evidence on a controversial topic in California.” College & Research Libraries 56 (2): 101-11.

Herb, S. 1999. “Intellectual Freedom and the academic library.” College & Research Libraries News 60 (10): 841-43.

Heckart, R. 1991. “The library as a marketplace of ideas.” College & Research Libraries 52 (6): 491–503.

Heins, M. 1998. “Screening out sex: kids, computers, and the new censors.” The American Prospect 39 (July-August): 38-43.

Hole, C. 1984. “What me censor?” Top of the News 40 (1): 147–53.

Hole, C. 1985.“Yeah me censor.” Top of the News 41 (2): 236–48.

Kleiner, K. 1997. “Anti-porn firm silences net critic.” New Scientist 153 (January 4): 7.

Kleiner, K. 1997. “But who guards the guards?” New Scientist 153 (March 29): 50.

Kleiner, K. 2000. “Watching the detectives.” Mother Jones 25 (July): 22.

Krug, J. and Harvey, J. (1996). “ALA and intellectual freedom: a historical overview.” In Intellectual freedom manual, fifth ed. Chicago and London: American Library Association: xix–xlvii.

Langton, R. 1990. “Whose right? Ronald Dworkin, women, and pornographers.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 19, n. 4 (Autumn): 311-359.

Lincove, D. 1994. “Propaganda and the American public library for the 1930s to the eve of World War II.” RQ 33 (4): 510-23.

MacKinnon, C. 1987. Feminism unmodified : Discourses on life and law. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

MacKinnon, C. 1989. Toward a feminist theory of the state. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

MacKinnon, C. 1992. “Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech.” In Pornography: Women, Violence, and Civil Liberties. Ed. Catherine Itzin. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press: 456-511.

MacKinnon, C. 1993. Only words. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Marshall, J. 1998. “Will free speech get tangled in the net?” The American Prospect 36 (January-February): 46-50.

McCoy, R. 1984 “Social responsibility vs. The Library Bill of Rights.” In The First freedom today. Ed. Robert Downs and Ralph E. McCoy. Chicago: American Library Association: 114-16.

Mill, J. S.. 1975. On liberty. Ed. by D. Spitz. New York: W.W. Norton.

Mill, J. S. 1965. Principles of political economy. In Collected Works, vol. 3. Ed.by J.M. Robson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

Peacefire: Open access for the Net generation (http://www.peacefire.org).

Preer, J. 1994. “Censorship.” In The Encyclopedia of library history. Ed. Wayne Wiegand and D.G. Davis New York: Garland: 117-124. 

Rawls, J. 1971. A Theory of justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Robbins, L. 1996. Censorship and the American library: the American Library Association’s response to threats to intellectual freedom, 1939-1969. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Ryan, A. 1990. The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International.

Scanlon, T. 1972. “A Theory of freedom of expression.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (Winter): 204-26.

Simpson, C. 2000. “Why Internet filtering doesn’t work.” Technology and Learning 20 (April): 48.

Skipper, R. 1993. “Mill and pornography.” Ethics, 103, 726-30.

Swan, J. and Peattie, N. 1989. The Freedom to lie: A Debate about democracy. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland and Company.

Swan, J. 1994. “Intellectual freedom.” In The Encyclopedia of library history, ed. by Wayne Wiegand and D.G Davis. New York: Garland, 1994: 280-285.

Wallich, P. 1997. "Parental discretion advised." Scientific American 277 (August 1997): 38.

Ward, D. 1990. “Philosophical issues in censorship and intellectual freedom.” Library Trends 39 (Summer/Fall): 83-91.

West, C. 2004. “Pornography and censorship.” In The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pornography-censorship).

Westfall, J. 1999. “Cybersmut.” Business and Society Review 102/103 (Spring): 89-94.

Williams, B. et al. 1981. Obscenity and film censorship: An Abridgment of the Williams report. Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press.

Wiegand, W. 1989. An Active instrument for propaganda: The American public library during World War I. New York: Greenwood Press.

Woodward, D. 1990. “A Framework for deciding issues in ethics.” Library Trends 39 (Summer/Fall ): 8-17.

Woodward, D. 1990. “Introduction.” Library Trends 39 (Summer/Fall ): 3-7.

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