Chapter 1: Introduction
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5860/ltr.46n8Abstract
This chapter of Privacy and Freedom of Information in 21st-Century Libraries provides a backdrop for the entire issue. As libraries increasingly move beyond the provision of print material and into their expanding roles as providers of digital resources and services, intellectual freedom concerns have been magnified as they apply to a range of complex new issues.
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