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 05 July 17:28   Swan, John. “Untruth or Consequences.” Library Account 111 (July 1, 1986): 44-52.

    This commodity is an edited adaptation of a cardboard delivered at the Appointment on “The Backroom of Information” in 1985. Swan begins his commodity with a aspersion case from the Accompaniment of Illinois, and asks if “Truth” should play the cardinal role as the raison d’etre of libraries, or do libraries serve addition couldcause entirely? His capacity for altercation include:

    1. Are libraries committed to “Truth” for acknowledged purposes?

    2. The role of “Truth”, “ Untruth” and Libraries.

    3. “Truth” is all-important for the law, but “Untruths” are a all-important action of libraries.

    4. Intellectual freedom, not “Truth” should be the active force for libraries.

    5. Libraries accept a assignment to present “Untruths”.

    His abstracts are that libraries exist, by their actual nature, as forums for account and that both “Truth” and “Untruth” are all-important in accouterment advice to the public. The role of libraries is admission to both, and in actuality one cannot is after the other.

    I begin his arguments convincing, bond absolute activity scenarios (legal cases, the CLA) with the broader role of libraries as authentic in the ALA’s Bill of Rights (as discussed in Rubin). The distinctions he makes about the differing roles of the acknowledged system, third affair groups, libraries and the role that censorship plays from burden groups are as absolute and pertinent today as they were 20 years ago, in actuality added so, as there is added “conflicting” advice accessible to the accessible today due to advances in technology (internet, blogs, etc.).