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Collection Development Policy
Scope of the Collection
The library will buy material in all areas and try to maintain the core collection on an equal basis. However, special emphasis will be on the following areas:
1. Juvenile materials in both fiction and nonfiction, encompassing a large selection of easy reading materials
2. Young adult materials in both fiction and nonfiction, encompassing a collection of materials at a reading and interest level between juvenile and adult ages
3. Adult nonfiction in the areas of local history, popular medicine, popular law, literary criticism, small business development, self-help, foreign languages, and biographies
4. Adult fiction of all genres, large type materials, and nationally recognized best sellers
Reference Collection
Reference materials will include all areas of nonfiction. A core collection reflecting the guidelines of professionally recognized bibliographies, lists, and indexes will be purchased. Reference materials may be purchased in a variety of formats depending on availability, shelving capacity, budget, and ease of access. The depth of subject coverage will be determined by customer requests for information.
Duplicates of Materials
Purchase of duplicates will be based on customer demand. Materials with multiple reserves or multiple interlibrary loan requests will be considered for duplication through lease or purchase.
Standing Orders
Standing orders for rapidly dated materials may be placed only with the approval of the Assistant Administrator/Information and the Collection Manager. All such titles will be reviewed annually for relevancy and continued use prior to the beginning of the new fiscal year.
Acceptable Formats
1. Print items
a. Books—the main book vendor will be determined by discount offered,
fill rate, and compatibility of ordering process with Library software.
Trade binding will normally be chosen except for high demand juvenile
materials. Trade paperback editions, when available, will be purchased
for rapidly dated information. With rare exceptions, mass-market
paperbacks will not be purchased. The low-grade binding and marginal
paper quality of these books are not intended to withstand the stress of
library circulation.
b. Periodicals—will be purchased through a centralized subscription
agency if possible, i.e., EBSCO. Direct subscriptions for individual
titles will be avoided if possible.
a. Newspapers—will be purchased through direct subscription and will
reflect customer demand within budget restraints.
b. Government Documents—will be purchased, as popular demands
require.
c. Microforms—will be purchased in both microfilm and microfiche, with
fiche being the preferred medium.
d. Textbooks—will be added to the collection only when the subject
information is available in no other print source and is necessary to
satisfy customer demand.
2. Audiovisual items:
a. VHS Cassettes—will be purchased for both Youth and Adult collections in the areas of information, education, and entertainment. Award-winning videos will be given priority consideration when making selection decisions.
b. Digital Video Discs—will be purchased following the same guidelines as VHS.
c. Audio Books—will be purchased from a variety of vendors. Audio books will be purchased for both fiction and non-fiction titles, including language kits, for
Youth, Young Adults, and Adult collections. The adult collection will be augmented by leased audio books. Audio books will be purchased in both cassette and CD format.
d. Compact Disc Recordings—will be purchased for both adult and youth collections. Award-winning compact disc recordings will be given priority consideration when making selection decisions.
3. Computer software—will not be purchased for circulation.
4. Maps—will be purchased in book and non-book format.
5. Games, toys, and toy books—will be purchased only as needed by the Youth Services Manager for programming and display.
6. 16mm Films, Filmstrips, Art Prints, LP recordings, and Sheet
Music—will not be purchased or collected.
Limits of the Collection
Limits of the collection include budget, available shelving, and user demand or lack thereof.
Donations to the Collection
The Collection Manager will determine inclusion of gift materials in the collection on the basis of need and suitability. Any such materials will meet selection criteria. The Collection Manager or an agent designated by the Assistant Administrator/Operations will determine use or disposal of all gift materials.
Preservation and Conservation of the Collection
Materials needing major repairs will be considered for replacement, rebinding, or discard. If replacement is necessary the most recent edition will be purchased. If the title is out of print, alternative titles will be considered. Since many book repair methods create hazards for other volumes shelved in proximity, it is more cost effective to replace or rebind materials needing extensive repair.
Rebinding will only be considered for out of print materials containing valuable information not readily available in other works. The condition of the volume must be such as to allow successful rebinding. Final decision regarding rebinding will rest with the Collection Development Manager.
Selection Criteria
The following sources are recommended for Librarians to use in evaluating materials for purchase or addition to the collection:
· Reviews in professionally recognized selection tools
· Professionally recognized bibliographies, indexes, and book lists
· Requests from cardholders, including interlibrary loan requests for subjects or specific titles more than 3 times in one year
Librarians selecting materials for the collection will use the following criteria:
· Materials which enrich and support the existing collection
· Materials or subjects requested by users
· Materials which supply information to fill voids in the existing collection
· Relevance of the subject matter to the existing collection and the community
· Suitability of the content to the users’ reading and interest levels
· Permanent or timely value of materials
· Competence and authority of the author, editor, compiler, and/or publisher
· Accuracy of the information
· Materials clearly written in a style comprehensible to the general public
· Price which is comparable to alternative sources and/or formats
· Availability of materials in alternate information centers within the geographic area
· Historic value
· Technical and artistic quality
Specific Areas of Responsibility
Maintenance of the balance of the core collection and supervision of areas of special interest is the responsibility of the Collection Manager. He/She will assign areas of responsibility for selection; in the absence of this position, the Library Administrator will make assignments. It is the Collection Manager’s responsibility to aid in the development of the entire collection in addition to his/her specific areas of selection responsibility and to monitor expenditures and selections of other Librarians. Final responsibility regarding staff expenditure of library funds rests with the Library Administrator.
Texas-Southwest Collection
The Texas-Southwest Collection is a research and reference collection and will consist of materials relating to Texas or to the geographic area designated Southwest, Old or Southwest, New, to include but not necessarily be limited to Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. It may also contain some materials pertaining to Louisiana when they represent an impact on the history or social conditions of Texas.
Selection priority will be given to materials about Texas or by Texas authors. Nonfiction in the areas of history, geography, and folk literature will have priority over other subject areas. Fiction about the region and publications by Texas authors, either fiction or nonfiction, not specific to Texas-Southwest region, will be secondary selections.
The collection is archival in nature. Due to budget considerations, rare books will not be actively pursued for purchase. Donations of rare books, which fit the above criteria, may be added to the collection at the discretion of the Collection Manager and Assistant Administrator/Information.
Materials concerning the region, which have genealogy as the main focus, will be added to the Genealogy Collection, not the Texas-Southwest Collection.
An archival file of clippings, articles, pamphlets, and newspapers may be established at the discretion of the Assistant Administrator/Information as budget and staff time permit.
Audio-visual materials other than microforms will not be purchased, nor added to the collection.
Discard Policy
Discard of unused and out-dated materials and those in poor physical condition will be an on-going process. The evaluation of the collection should be completed once every five years. The Collection Manager will have the responsibility of establishing and overseeing the discard schedule, and evaluating recommended discards.
Discard criteria:
Any circulating materials meeting the criteria below will be candidates for discard.
· Fiction materials published 10 years previously, which have not circulated in 2 years, unless listed in core collection bibliographies or local school recommended reading lists
· Science, Technology, Medical, and Law materials published more than 5 years previously, which have not circulated in 2 years, unless listed in core collection bibliographies; materials meeting the circulation criteria will be examined for inaccurate or out-dated information
· Agriculture, Social Science, and Business materials published more than 5 years previously, which have not circulated in 2 years, unless listed in core collection bibliographies
· All other areas of nonfiction materials published more than 10 years previously, which have not circulated in 5 years, unless listed in core collection bibliographies
· Any materials containing out-dated information that could be potentially harmful to a reader will be discarded regardless of other factors
· Periodicals for which microforms have been received will be discarded. Periodicals that are not indexed and not included in core collection bibliographies will be re-evaluated every 3 years for retention of back files.
The Circulation Manager will be responsible for making sure that items chosen for discard are stamped Properly Withdrawn and holdings status changed to “weeding” or “discarded.”
Discarded materials will be disposed of in the following manner:
1. Friends of the Library Book Store
2. Donations to other libraries or nonprofit organizations
3. Donations to long-term care facilities
4. Disposal through City of Wichita Falls refuse system
Re-evaluation of Materials Policy
The Wichita Falls Public Library supports the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights, Statement on Labeling, and Freedom to Read Statement. Copies are appended to the Collection Development Policy.
It is, however, necessary to establish a procedure for the re-evaluation of challenged materials in order to promote understanding and good working relations with the public. The following procedure is established to direct complaint response in an equal and timely manner.
· Any person requesting reconsideration of any materials must complete and sign a Patron Complaint/Library Materials Form.
· The completed and signed form will be received by the Collection Manager, dated and forwarded to the Library Administrator.
· The Administrator will notify the Assistant City Manager and Library Advisory Board of the complaint, send a copy of the form to the Assistant Administrator/Information, and file the original
· The Assistant Administrator/Information and two other Librarians of his/her choice will form a Professional Re-evaluation Committee.
· After members of the committee have examined the material independently, the Assistant Administrator/Information will schedule a meeting during which the members will form a consensus recommendation as to disposition of the complaint to forward to the Library Administrator. The meeting will take place within 4 weeks of date of receipt of original complaint.
· The Library Administrator will review the recommendation of the Committee and notify the Complainant, the Assistant City Manager, and the Library Advisory Board of his/her decision within 8 weeks of receipt of original complaint.
· The Administrator may bring complaints regarding materials to the Library Advisory Board for consideration and input, if deemed advisable. The Board Members, after consideration and discussion, may opt to hold an open forum, or may opt to vote on the matter during either a regular or called Board Meeting. The recommendations of the Board and the Professional Re-evaluation Committee and all supporting documentation will be considered by the Administrator in making his/her final decision concerning disposition of the complaint.
· The Administrator will have responsibility and liability for the final decision.
· Once validated by the process, materials will not be eligible for further re-evaluation.
Wichita Fall Public Library
Patron Complaint/Library Materials
Title of Work: __________________________________________________
Type of Material:
· Book_______
· Periodical________
· Video/DVD_______
· CD_________
· Other (Please specify)______________________
Author: ___________________________________________
Publisher: _________________________________________
Name of Complainant (Please print)
___________________________________________________
Address:
________________________________________________________
Street City State Zip Code
Day telephone__________________
Do you represent:
· Yourself_____
· Organization__________
Name of organization_________________________________
Signature of Complainant______________________________________
Public Library Materials will not be re-evaluated without a Signed and Fully Completed Patron Complaint/Library Materials Form.
Patron Complaint/Library Materials Form
Public Library Materials will not be reconsidered without a Signed and Fully Completed
Patron Complaint/Library Materials Form. (All questions must be fully answered. Use extra paper if necessary.)
· To what in the work do you object? Be specific, cite page numbers and quote exact passages; cite specific scenes and their location in the video; or specific tracks of a CD.
· Did you read, watch, or listen to the entire work? _______
If not, what parts did you read, watch, or listen to? Be specific, cite page numbers, chapters, scenes, sections, tracks, etc.
· In your personal opinion, what do you believe might be the result of reading, watching, listening to this work? On what do you base this opinion?
· For what age group would you recommend this work? Why?
· What do you perceive as the theme of the work? Why?
· Do you object to any of the characterizations in the work? What in your personal opinion is offensive and why?
· Do you object to the setting of the work? Does it fit the subject matter? What in your personal opinion is offensive and why?
· If the work purports to be nonfiction, what inaccuracies in the text, pictures, or content did you observe? Be specific as to dates, persons, historical content, legal, medical information, etc., citing specific examples and page numbers.
· If the work purports to be nonfiction, what is the focus of the author? Informative only, personal reminiscence, journal, fictionalized account of person, place, thing, or event based on factual information, other (be specific)
· Are you aware of judgments of this work by literary critics and/or subject specialists? What reviews have you researched? (Give specific citations)
· What are your personal credentials for critiquing this work? Be specific.
· What disposition do you wish concerning this work? Why?
· In its place, what work would you recommend that would equally convey a valuable a picture and perspective of the subject treated?
List specific titles with authors of materials currently available. Materials must reflect the same reading vocabulary level and cover the same subject matter. Out of print publications may not be suggested.
Signature of complainant_________________________________
Printed name___________________________________________
Date__________________________
Public Library Materials will not be re-evaluated unless this form is fully completed and signed. All complaint forms will be referred to the Library Administrator. The complainant will be notified of the final decision within three months from the date of receipt.
Wichita Falls Public Library
Checklist for Professional Re-evaluation
Nonfiction
Written recommendation from the Professional Re-evaluation Committee should consider and include the following points:
· Title
· Author
· Purpose
1. What is the overall purpose/theme of the material?
2. How well is the purpose/theme developed?
· Authenticity
1. Does the material promote the Mission Statement of the Library?
2. What is the appropriate level of reader maturity?
3. Are illustrations, if any, appropriate to the text and target audience maturity level?
· Content
1. Is the subject well presented by providing adequate scope, range, depth, and continuity?
2. Does the content include information not otherwise readily available?
3. Does this work give a new dimension or direction to its subject not found in other sources? If so, how?
· Reviews
1. Cite any review of this work found. Was it favorable? If not, to what did the reviewer object?
2. Does this title appear in one or more professionally recognized selection aids? Cite all locations.
· Additional comments, if any
· Recommendation of Committee on disposition of this work
· Signatures and Titles of Committee Members
· Date of report
Wichita Falls Public Library
Checklist for Professional Re-evaluation
Fiction and Non-print Forms
Written recommendation from the Professional Re-evaluation Committee should consider and include the following points:
· Title
· Author
· Purpose
1. What is the purpose, theme, or message of the work? How well does the author/producer/composer/artist accomplish this purpose?
2. What is the target audience maturity level? Is the work suitable for this audience?
3. Will reading of/listening to/viewing of the work result in a more compassionate understanding of human beings?
4. Does the work offer an opportunity to better understand and appreciate the aspirations, achievements, and/or problems of any minority or ethnic group?
5. Are any “questionable” elements of the work an integral part of a worthwhile theme or message?
· Appropriateness
1. Are the illustrations/images, if any, appropriate to the text and intended audience maturity level?
2. Are concepts presented in the work appropriate to the maturity level of the intended audience?
· Content
1. Does the work reflect accurately the period in which it is set?
2. Does the work avoid an oversimplified view of life, presenting it as either all good or all bad?
3. When factual information is part of the work, is it presented accurately or, if not, is literary license noted anywhere in the work?
4. Is a racist theme readily identifiable to members of the intended audience?
5. Are the language and behavior of characters true to the setting and theme?
· Reviews
1. Cite any review of this work found. Was it favorable? If not, to what did the reviewer object?
2. Does this title appear in one or more professionally recognized selection aids? Cite all locations.
· Additional comments, if any
· Recommendation of Committee on Disposition of Work
· Signatures and Titles of Committee Members
· Date
Policy Review
This statement of policy and its appendices will be reviewed every 3 years, and expanded or modified as warranted.
The Library Administrator is responsible for initiating the review process. The Collection Manager and all Librarians will be encouraged to review the policy and make suggestions.
The Assistant City Manager and the Library Advisory Board will be asked to participate in the review process and will approve any revisions.
Appendix I
Library Bill of Rights*
The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services:
1. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
2. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
3. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
4. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
5. A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
6. Libraries, which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve, should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations or individuals or groups requesting their time.
*Library Bill of Rights adopted June 18, 1948; amended February 2, 1961; June 27, 1967, and January 23, 1980 by the ALA Council.
Appendix II
American Library Association Statement on Labeling*
1. Labeling is an attempt to prejudice the reader, and as such it is a censor’s tool.
2. Although some find it easy and even proper, according to their ethics, to establish criteria for judging publications as objectionable, injustice and ignorance rather than justice and enlightenment result from such practices, and the American Library Association must oppose the establishment of such criteria.
3. Libraries do not advocate the ideas found in their collections. The presence of a magazine or book in a library does not indicate an endorsement of its contents by the library.
4. No one person should take the responsibility for labeling publications. No sizable group of persons would likely agree on the types of material, which should be labeled or the sources of information, which should be regarded with suspicion. As a practical consideration, a librarian who labels a book or magazine might be sued for libel.
5. If materials are labeled to pacify one group, there is no excuse for refusing to label any item in the library’s collection. Because authoritarians tend to suppress ideas and attempt to coerce individuals to conform to a specific ideology, the American Library Association opposes such efforts, which aim at closing any path to knowledge.
*”Labeling,” as it is referred to in the Statement on Labeling, is the practice of describing or designating certain library materials, by affixing a prejudicial label to them or segregating them by a prejudicial system, so as to predispose readers against the materials.
Adopted July 13, 1951, amended June 25, 1971, by the ALA Council.
Appendix III
Freedom to Read Statement
The freedom to read is essential to our democracy. It is continuously under attack. Private groups and public authorities in various parts of the country are working to remove books from sale, to censor textbooks, to label “controversial” books, to distribute lists of “objectionable” books or authors, and to purge libraries. These actions apparently rise from a view that our national tradition of free expression is no longer valid; that censorship and suppression are needed to avoid the subversion of politics and the corruption of morals. We, as citizens devoted to the use of books and as librarians and publishers responsible for disseminating them, wish to assert the public interest in the preservation of the freedom to read.
We are deeply concerned about these attempts at suppression. Most such attempts rest on a denial of the fundamental premise of democracy: that the ordinary citizen by exercising his critical judgment will accept the good and reject the bad. The censors, public and private, assume that they should determine what is good and what is bad for their fellow citizens.
We trust Americans to recognize propaganda, and to reject it. We do not believe they need the help of censors to assist them in this task. We do not believe they are prepared to sacrifice their heritage of a free press in order to be “protected” against what others think may be bad for them. We believe they still favor free enterprise in ideas and expression.
We are aware, of course, that books are not alone in being subjected to efforts at suppression. We are aware that these efforts are related to a larger pattern of pressures being brought against education, the press, films, radio and television. The problem is not only one of actual censorship. The shadow of fear cast by these pressures leads, we suspect, to an even larger voluntary curtailment of expression by those who seek to avoid controversy.
Such pressure toward conformity is perhaps natural to a time of uneasy change and pervading fear. Especially when so many of our apprehensions are directed against an ideology, the expression of a dissident idea becomes a thing feared in itself, and we tend to move against it as a hostile deed, with suppression.
And yet suppression is never more dangerous than in such a time of social tension. Freedom has given the United States the elasticity to endure strain. Freedom keeps open the path of novel and creative solutions, and enables change to come by choice. Every silencing of a heresy, every enforcement of an orthodoxy, diminishes the toughness and resilience of our society and leaves it the less able to deal with stress.
Now as always in our history, books are among our greatest instruments of freedom. They are almost the only means for making generally available ideas or manners of expression that can initially command only a small audience. They are the natural medium for the new idea and the untried voice from which come the original contributions to social growth,. They are essential to the extended discussion which serious thought requires, and to the accumulation of knowledge and ideas into organized collections.
We believe that free communication is essential to the preservation of a free society and a creative culture. We believe that these pressures towards conformity present the danger of limiting the range and variety of inquiry and expression on which our democracy and our culture depend. We believe that every American community must jealously guard the freedom to read. We believe that publishers and librarians have a profound responsibility to give validity to that freedom to read by making it possible for the readers to choose from a variety of offerings.
We therefore affirm these propositions:
1. It is in the public interest for publishers and librarians to make available the widest diversity of views and expression, including those which are unorthodox or unpopular with the majority.
Creative thought is by definition new, and what is new is different. The bearer of every thought is a rebel until his idea is refined and tested. Totalitarian systems attempt to maintain themselves in power by the ruthless suppression of any concept which challenges the established orthodoxy. The power of a democratic system to adapt to change is vastly strengthened by the freedom of its citizens to choose widely from among conflicting opinions offered freely to them. To stifle every nonconformist idea at birth would mark the end of the democratic process. Furthermore, only through the constant activity of weighing and selecting can the democratic mind attain the strength demanded by times like these. We need to know not only what we believe but why we believe it.
2. Publishers, librarians and booksellers do not need to endorse every idea or presentation contained in the books they make available. It would conflict with the public interest for them to establish their own political, moral or aesthetic views as the sole standard for determining what books should be published or circulated.
Publishers and librarians serve the educational process by helping to make available knowledge and ideas required for the growth of mind and the increase of learning. They do not foster education by imposing as mentors the patterns of their own thought. The people should have the freedom to read and consider a broader range of ideas than those that may be held by any single librarian or publisher or government or church. It is wrong that what one man can read should be confined to what another thinks is proper.
3. It is contrary to the public interest for publishers or librarians to determine the acceptability of a book solely on the basis of the personal history or political affiliations of the author.
A book should be judged as a book. No art or literature can flourish if it is to be measured by the political views or private lives of its creators. Not society of free men can flourish which draws up lists of writers to whom it will not listen, whatever they may have to say.
4. There is no place in our society for extra-legal efforts to coerce the taste of others, to confine adults to reading matter deemed suitable for adolescents, or to inhibit the efforts of writers to achieve artistic expression.
To some, much of modern literature is shocking. But is not much of life itself shocking? We cut literature at the source if we prevent writers from dealing with the stuff of life. Parents and teachers have a responsibility to prepare the young to meet the diversity of existence in life to which they will be exposed, as they have a responsibility to help them learn to think critically for themselves. These are affirmative responsibilities, not to be discharged simply by preventing them from reading works for which they are not yet prepared. In these matters taste differs, and taste cannot be legislated; nor can machinery be devised which will suit the demands of one group without limiting the freedom of others.
5. It is not in the public interest to force a reader to accept with any book the prejudgment of a label characterizing the book or author as subversive or dangerous.
The ideal of labeling presupposes the existence of individuals or groups with wisdom to determine by authority what is good or bad for the citizen. It presupposes that each individual must be directed in making up his mind about the ideas he examines. But Americans do no need others to do their thinking for them.
6. It is the responsibility of publishers and librarians, as guardians of the people’s freedom to read,
contest encroachments upon that freedom by individuals or groups seeking to impose their own
standards or tastes upon the community at large.
It is inevitable in the give and take of the democratic process that the political, the moral, or the aesthetic concepts of an individual or group will occasionally collide with those of another individual or group. In a free society each individual is free to determine for himself what he wishes to read, and each group is free to determine what it will recommend to its freely associated members. But no group has the right to take the law into its own hands, and to impose its own concept of politics or morality upon other members of a democratic society. Freedom is no freedom if it is accorded only to the accepted and inoffensive.
7. It is the responsibility of publishers and librarians to give full meaning to the freedom to read by providing books that enrich the quality and diversity of thought and expression. By the exercise of the affirmative responsibility, bookmen can demonstrate that the answer to a bad book is a good one, the answer to a bad idea is a good one.
The freedom to read is of little consequence when expended on the trivial; it is frustrated when the reader cannot obtain matter fit for his purpose. What is needed is not only the absence of restraint, but the positive provision of opportunity for the people to read the best that has been thought and said. Books are the major channel by which the intellectual inheritance is handed down, and the principal means of its testing and growth. The defense of their freedom and integrity and the enlargement of their service to society, require of all bookmen the utmost of their faculties, and deserve of all citizens the fullest of their support.
We state these propositions neither lightly nor as easy generalizations. We here stake out a lofty claim for the value of books. We do so because we believe that they are good, possessed of enormous variety and usefulness, worthy of cherishing and keeping free. We realize that the application of these propositions may mean the dissemination of ideas and matters of expression that are repugnant to many persons. We do not state these propositions in the comfortable belief that what people read is unimportant. We believe rather that what people read is deeply important; that ideas can be dangerous; but that the suppression of ideas is fatal to a democratic society. Freedom itself is a dangerous way of life, but it is ours.
A Joint Statement by:
American Library Association
Association of American Publishers
Subsequently endorsed by:
American Booksellers Association
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
American Civil Liberties Union
American Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO
Anti-Defamation League of B,nai B’rith
Association of American University Presses
Bureau of Independent Publishers & Distributors
Children’s Book Council
Freedom of Information Center
Freedom to Read Foundation
International Reading Association
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression
Magazine Publishers Association of America
Motion Picture Association of America
National Association of College Stores
National Book Committee
National Council of Negro Women
National Council of Teachers of English
National Library Week Program
National Board of the Young Women’s Christian Association of the USA
P.E.N. - American Center
People for the American Way
Periodical and Book Association of the U.S.
Sex Information & Education Council of the U.S.
Society of Professional Journalists
Women’s National Book Association
YWCA of the U.S.A.
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