“Many libraries are digging in their heels and saying, "We are not going to add filtering mechanisms."”

— Judith Krug

"A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend" by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times (January 18, 1997)

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librarian and freedom of speech proponent 1940–2009

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