A public right to know

Abstract

I believe it is, or was, the case that libraries in the Republic of South Africa do not stock copies of Black Beauty; nor children's stories about little black rabbits and little white ones. Similarly, it is said to be impossible to get Darwin's Origin of the Species in the so called ‘Bible Belt’ region in the USA; and I have no doubt that it would be provocative—and also futile—to request a copy of, say, Animal Farm from the Lenin Library in Moscow.

Citation

Medawar, C. (1976), "A public right to know", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 28 No. 2, pp. 69-75. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050544