Not Recommended: A List for Catholic High School Libraries, 1942

In the 1942 edition of the Standard Catalog for High School Libraries the annotation "Not recommended by CHSC [Catholic High School Catalog] Committee" is applied to seventy titles identified by a committee of the Catholic Library Association. The selection of titles for negative recommend...

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Published in:Libraries & culture 1995-04, Vol.30 (2), p.170-198
Main Author: Wagner, Ralph D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cataloging
Catholic schools
Catholicism
Censorship
Christianity
Documentation institutions
Exact sciences and technology
High education and university libraries
Information and communication sciences
Information science. Documentation
Librarians
Libraries
Libraries. Virtual and electronic libraries. Media centers. Documentation centers
Library associations
Roman Catholic Church
School libraries
Sciences and techniques of general use
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Summary:In the 1942 edition of the Standard Catalog for High School Libraries the annotation "Not recommended by CHSC [Catholic High School Catalog] Committee" is applied to seventy titles identified by a committee of the Catholic Library Association. The selection of titles for negative recommendation reflects such criteria as conformity with the Catholic Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the rejection of moral and religious ideas at variance with the Church's teachings, the preservation of a favorable image of the Church in history, and the moral implications of fiction. The need for negative recommendations resulted from the distinction between the Catholic philosophy of education and the theory of Progressive Education reflected in the Standard Catalog for High School Libraries. An annotated bibliography identifies probable reasons for the rejection of each title.
ISSN:0894-8631
1534-7591