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There will be a container in the
Lobby of Margaret I. King North B 5 A N
for donations to Kentucky disaster -
areas.‘ Items of clothing, bed- UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LIBRARIES
clothes, non-perishable food, etc. NEWSLETTER HI/5/74
will all be acceptable. DEADLINE
FOR DONATIONS WILL BE WED. - 4/10.
UKLA U `
University of Kentucky Librarians' Association will meet April 9, 1974
at 3:30 p.m. in 206 Student Center. The speaker will be Pete Manch&es
of University Information service. He will speak on the general area
of Library Services and Public Relations. » ‘
DIBEQIOB’§ mg]355 I
The following xeroxed items have been placed on reserve for those who
are interested:
1. Hopkins, "The Ohio College Library Center," Library Resources &
Technical Services. 17: 308-19 (Summer 1973).
2. Kilgour, "Initial System Design for the Ohio College Library
Center: A Case History," in Clinic on Library Applications of
Data Processing, University of Illinois, 1968, Proceedings, _
p. 79-88. A
3. Kilgour, "A Regional Network — Ohio College Library Center,"
Datamation 18: 87-89 (Feb. 1970).
4. Kilgour et al, "The Shared Cataloging System of the Ohio College
Library Center," Journal of Library Automation 5:157-83 I
(Sept. 1972). ,
PERSONNEL
I am pleased to announce the following personnel changes in the Li-
brary.
Effective April 1,Ronnie Lloyd and Trudy Bellardo exchanged positions.
Ronnie has moved to the Reserve Room and Trudy to the Art Library.
On April 15,additional changes will be made. In each case the indi-
vidual and his position will be transferred.
1. Sandy Gilchrist will move into Reference on a ful1—time basis.
2. (John Richardson will replace Sandy in Inter—Library Loans. , ·
3. Dean Trivette will serve as State Documents Librarian in GPD on
an iterim basis. ~» · y
4. Becky Heath will go from Cataloging to the Agriculture Library.

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A reorganization of assignments in the cataloginghdepartmentihasire-IV
sulted in one new section and changes in other sections.‘ · - -.
Joan Gatewood and Pamela Williams willibe the head and the assistant ·
head, respectively,*of the catalog maintenance section.= New duties¤
of this group which includes the typing section, will be the super-
vision of student filers at the public catalog and shelf list, the.
removal of all cards and slips from the catalog and shelf list for
withdrawals and transfers, the making of duplicate cards, substituting ‘
clean cards, providing overlays and checking errors.
Later duties to be assumed will be those of subject heading coordi-
.natorn `It is hoped that the section will.beyable to assume revision
of the public catalog and shelf list by the first of next year. ul »~
Bindery·Preparationsxmill assume the labeling of all books formerly
labeled in cataloging. "
Serials holdings on shelf lists will no longer be added. The Central
Serials Record will have the only complete record of holdings. ‘
Jane Dean will be cataloging serials with copy. `· 4
These changes will take place as of April 8. ·~* f_' _
Gail Kennedy will become head of the quick cataloging section of the
cataloging department as of July I. Gail will receive her MS in LS
degree from the School of Library Science at the end of the summer
session. She was a member of the circulation department staff before
she came to cataloging.= ‘¤ VZ —- .* »
· · 'i ‘ » E.V.S.
Justice Arthur J. Goldberg discussed the recent Supreme Court deci-
sion on obscenity which permits different communities to set their
own standards at a recent Student Forum on Obscenity and the Law; ‘"
the former Supreme Court Justice stated that there should be consti-
tutional’safeguards·applicable~in·Kentuckycas well as in New York
City. .»—
The American Library Association at its annual meeting passed a reso-
lution asking for a rehearing.©f.the*Supreme Court·decision in` "
Miller Vs. California, and many of its members were incensed by_the
Association taking a position on such a controversial issue.; what is
the proper role of libraries and librarians with regard to censor-
ship and the community?
Let us first put;the question int0ithe‘framework“of·the status ofg
censorship as-ana1nstrument*of·socia1ization in the United States.
Historically, censorship, both political and moral, has been the rule
rather than the·except1on&? In fact, public*1ibraries~were‘created in
the image of r1ght—m1nded men attempting to socialize the common man
into an acceptance of right-reason and benevolent rule. Nineteenth

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century philosophy contained no belief in the common man; rather, it
was the governance of a docile group of well—trained workers by a
highly educated elite that comprised the philosophy of emergent in-
dustrial capitalism and Social Darwinism. _
Early political censorship was highlighted by the imprisonment of
William Bradford in Pennsylvania for printing the colony charter and
by the trial of John Peter Zenger in New York for seditious libel.
In 1800 political censorship was still rampant despite the First
Amendment; however, Jeffersonian government brought with it the
demise of the Alien and Sedition Acts. Jacksonian Democracy brought
a new wave of censorship against abolitionist literature that was
only exceeded in fervor by the growing puritannical Comstock movement
which swept the nation in the post—Civil War era. During this time,
the basic anti-obscenity laws, both state and federal, were enacted.
And again, libraries and librarians led the movement against social
disease, ideleness, drunkeness, sexual excess, and all other forms of
moral decadence. V
The latest period of repression began in World War I when German
language was banned in some schools and Wobblies and labor agitators
were prosecuted under the Espionage Acts. However, librarians at
this time began to represent a new public, the intellectual or aca-
demic elite, and the philosophy became one of library protection of
sources of information against the inroads of censorship.‘ The new
library philosophy was not antithetical to the former position of
librarians as right thinkers and purveyors of the right way to think;
rather, it was an expression of a new scientific era that discarded
Social Darwinism for empirical science. Censorship must be viewed in
terms of the actual patron of the library‘s service, the self-selectei
intellectual elite; mass socialization was never really attempted by
the library; consequently, there is no real evidence available as to
what effect books do have on the public, i.e., good books as opposed _
to dirty books or bad books.
The Supreme Court has held that a book need not "be utterly without
redeeming social value," but rather the test is, "whether the work,
taken as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or
scientific value." Miller vs. California. Moreover, the Court held
the standard to be whether, "the average person, applying contempo-
rary community standard" would find the work, taken as a whole,
appeals to the prurient interests. However the Court stated that the
conduct must "be specifically defined by the applicable state law,
as written or authoriatatively construed." In fact, the community
standard in the light of national norms has been the rule; convictions
are usually reversed because of illegal search and seizures, and the
same Court reversed an obscenity conviction under Kentucky law be-
cause of confiscation of media without a proper warrant. This does
not, however, mean that local and lower courts and state legislatures
will not take advantage of the Supreme Court's ruling to enact
stricter obscenity laws and to rule unfavorably on censorship, sure
that the Supreme Court will deny review of the case.
Should the American Library Association have taken a stand on the
issue? The academic profession might say this was an issue of
intellectual freedom which means a stand against censorship. Those .

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* in favor of social responsibility might say banning pornography is
_ wrong; therefore, we must actively advocate against the decision. I
“ would say it was an issue affecting library responsibility to the
p public upon which the library profession must make the issues known
Q to the public. The conclusion is that the question is not whether
: the Association should take a stand but how it should be done, and my
t answer is that the library and the librarian has a professional duty
to bring information to its users, the public, without censorship and
€ without bias on the part of the librarian. Yes. The American Li-
I brary Association has not only the right but also the duty to uphold
its professional responsibility--the giving of information to its
A users.
· A.L.M.
COMING UP _
T April 19 - Jerome Yavarovsky from Columbia University will speak to
us.
Q NEW STAFF MEMBERS: Beverly Little, Bindery IV (April l); Marilyn
Seilef, Cataloging V (March 25): Tayyaba Allaudin, Cataloging V
` (April 1).
I
NEEDED: a ride to New York City for ALA this July. Can“t drive but
would share gas and expenses. Also need a roommate for the occasion,
to lessen the expense ofia couple of nights in New York. (Call Nancy
Arthur Collins, Law Library, 257-1729)
p POSITION OPENING: Medical Center Library--Technician II.
A unique opportunity. Keypunch and related cataloging activities.
Knowledge of keypunch helpful but not essential. See or call Sara I
Leech at 233-5949.
The joint Spring meeting of KLA Special Libraries Section and the
SLA Kentucky Provisional Chapter will meet on April 25-26 at
Shakertown.
NEXT DEADLINE APRIL 17 I