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Objectionable Material

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Does the library have an ethical responsibility and obligation to collect archive so-called "objectionable" material such as pornography and obscenity? How is this obligation affected by government imposed censorship within a so-called democracy? Objectionable Material brings to popular ebook one of the most controversial issues facing contemporary information management.Australian Library and Information Association member and former National Film & Sound Archive SAR Research Fellow Robert Cettl brings specialist post-graduate reporting to popular ebook with Objectionable Material, the first report on librarianship and pornography to emerge from Australia, traditionally the most censorial of so-called "democracies".Objectionable Material is an experiment in ebooks, bridging popular and controversial issues with specialist Academic writing to explore the future of digital publishing in mass, specialist and peer review discourses. The results of extensive research into censorship and the library though a specialist area are brought to the popular ebook and made available to all.

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