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From: dws@mit-eddie.UUCP (Don Saklad)
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Subject: Re: libraries - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 27-Mar-84 08:51:04 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 27 08:51:04 1984
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	Central library at Copley Square, Boston delays or refuses requests
for documentation about policies, proceedures, rules and regulations.
Annual reports and department manuals aren't accessible and it's a
public library--a division of municipal government.  They're intimidated
and defensive on reference questions about the library per se,
yet it'd be one smallway to kindle any visitor's or user's interest about
library concerns.


	NYPL Opens the Book on Censorship
	_________________________________


	Beginning June 1, The New York Public Library will explore
the subject of censorship through major exhibitions, films and
public forums.
	

	CENSORSHIP:  500 YEARS OF CONFLICT
	__________________________________

	The most comprehensive exhibit ever mounted on
the subject of censorship will inaugurate the restored
Gottesman Exhibition Hall, closed for 40 years.
More than 250 rarebooks, prints and manuscripts, drawn
entirely from the Library's collections, will trace
five centuries of censorship in Western culture, from the
advent of printing to the present.

	Central Research Library, June 1- October 15.
Monday-Saturday, 10-6; For details call 221-7676.


	COMPLEMENTARY EXHIBITIONS
	_________________________

	Four exhibitions will focus on specialized topics
of censorship:  Censorship in the Slavic World and
		______________________________

Censorship in Libraries Today, at the Central Research Library,
_____________________________

June 1-October 15; Censorship in Black America,
		   ___________________________

at the Schomburg Center, July 13-October 15;
Censorship of British and American Theater, August 1-October 15.
__________________________________________

For details call 221-7676.


	EXHIBITION TOURS
	________________

	Hour long tours of the three Censorship exhibits
in the Central Research Library will be given Monday-
Saturday at noon and 2 p. m. each day.
To arrange a group tour, call 930-0501.


	FILMS
	_____

	A series of 12 controversial films will be screened
uncensored at the Donnell Library at 53rd Street.
Cosponsored by Exit Art, the series will take place
on Thursday evenings at 6 p. m., June 21-August.
For details call 930-0855.


	PUBLIC FORUMS
	_____________

	A series of panel discussions entitled "Who reads What?
Censorship in School Libraries" will take place on Tuesday
evenings at 6 p. m. on June 5, 12 and 19.  Writers, librarians,
community activists and academics will participate.

	From September to mid October, readings and panel
discussions on contemporary issues of censorship will feature
journalists, legislators, expatriate writers and community
activists.

	Trustees Room, Central Research Library; for details
and reservations, call 930-0855.




	--The New York Public Library Calendar of Exhibitions
	  & Events, April-May 1984