Three Types of Censorship that Librarians Don’t Talk About

Three Types of Censorship that Librarians Don\’t Talk About, an article by Sanford Berman in the Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, discusses intellectual freedom from a different perspective from usual. The threat, as Berman sees it, is not primarily from outside challenges to \”controversial\” materials, but from market based censorship (e.g. the power of the big publishers to manipulate the review stream), government censorship of small, independent publishers, and librarians\’ self-censorship.