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The New Inquisition: Understanding and Managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges James LaRue. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2007. 157 p. $40 (ISBN: 978-1-59158-285-4).
James LaRue offers fresh advice on dealing with requests to pull books from public library collections. In an engaging, anecdotal style, LaRue recounts numerous examples of reallife intellectual freedom challenges he has encountered during his years as director of a Colorado library system.
Like most manuals on dealing with intellectual freedom challenges, this book begins with a chapter on the historical, philosophical, and legal contexts of intellectual freedom. But LaRue's...