A Desire to Learn: Selected Writings

Eric Moon served as editor-in-chief of Library Journal from 1959-1968, was chief editor at Scarecrow Press from 1969-1978 and was elected president of the American Library Association in 1977. Moon was known for his activism including against segregation in American librarianship. Contents: Foreword / Arthur Curley pt. I. Politics and Public Policy. A Clear Choice (1964) Voices on Vietnam? (1967) The Central Fact of Our Times (1965) Hungry and Not Very Scrupulous Lions (1967) A Matter of Values (1976) Data Bank Is Two Four-Letter Words (1977) Education Without Libraries = Catastrophe (1977) Money in the (Data) Bank (1978) Our Commission, Our Omissions (1984) pt. II. Discrimination. The Silent Subject (1960) The Process of Dilution (1963) Access and the Supreme Court (1966) The Issues That Confront Us Now (1984). A "Chapter" Chapter (1992) pt. III. Censorship. The Right to Write (1960). Courage and Cowardice (1962). The Benefit of the Doubt (1965). To Disagree Is Not to Destroy (1981). A Priori Censorship (1985). Living the Library Bill of Rights (1990) pt. IV. Collection Building. Critics, Awake! (1951) The Assistant and the Bookish Habit (1954) Stock Control in Public Libraries (1957) Confusion and Conviction (1962) The Blue and the Grey (1969) pt. V. The Library Profession. A Jungle Tale (1963) Fire from the Maddened Crowd (1965) RTSD and the Big Wide World (1966) High John (1968) A Conspiracy Against the Laity? (1969) A Potpourri of P's (1976) Who's Larry Powell? (1986) pt. VI. Library Associations. Potential for Power (1960) Library Association Agonies (1971) The State of the Union, Jack (1977) The Lacy Commission Report (1985) pt. VII. The Library Press. Hello, Out There, or Let's Communicate (1962) The Library Press (1969) The Journalist and the Writer (1970) Hook, Line and Sinker (1977) The Library Press and Eric Moon (1987) pt. VIII. General Articles and a Review Sampler. The Province Nobody Knows (1959) Blimey, a Limey! (1967) Writer of the People (John Steinbeck) (1957) Too Hot to Handle (Henry Miller) (1958) From the Twosome, a Quartet (Miller/Durrell) (1963) New Blacks in Notting Hill (C. MacInnes) (1969) Simenon's Magic (1966) Interpretations of the First Amendment (1985) Emergence of a Free Press (1985)