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ing prolabor freelance newspaper col-
umns and scheduling a labor film series
at a county library; questioning why a
system closed on Easter, but not on Jew-
ish holidays; criticizing library manage-
ment at a city council meeting; support-
ing a black coworker who charged the
administration with job discrimination;
publicly opposing a new main building
with inadequate space for books; asking
for improved security following a sexual
assault; and expressing an opinion on the
merits of AACR2 to state OCLC vendors.
In the last instance, the librarian was sub-
sequently reprimanded, forced into retire-
ment, and five books written or edited by
him, plus a sixth about him, expunged
from the library’s catalog and shelves.
Indeed, the “library profession,” includ-
ing local and national IF units, apparently
did not take “its responsibilities” very
seriously in these cases. And an amend-
ment to the Library Bill of Rights that
would have extended free speech rights
to library staff, affording them the same
protection as materials and meeting
rooms, was introduced to the ALA Coun-
cil in 1999 but ultimately scuttled, buried.
This event, perhaps unsurprisingly, also
is unreported in the Manual. (Likewise
unnoted are the documented examples of
censorship or omission within the library
press [e.g., “Top Censored Library Stories
of 1998/2000,” Unabashed Librarian, nos.
118, 119]).
Two final observations: First, the next
edition would greatly benefit from an
annotated directory of journals, groups,
and Web sites concerning freedom of in-
formation, censorship, and media democ-
racy. Such a list should helpfully include
sources for identifying and selecting truly
diverse materials (e.g., Counterpoise,
MultiCultural Review, Small Press Review,
Women’s Review of Books). Second, isn’t it
about time for ALA’s Intellectual Freedom
Committee and Office for Intellectual
Freedom to advise the Library of Con-
gress that there really is a concept called
“intellectual freedom” that deserves its
own subject heading? (At present, the
term appears in LCSH as an omnibus
“see” reference to more specific topics
such as “Academic freedom” and “Cen-
sorship.” A subject search under “Intel-
lectual freedom” will yield neither the
OIF Manual nor Samek’s book.)—Sanford
Berman, Alternative Library Literature.
Kister, Kenneth F. Eric Moon: The Life and
Library Times. Foreword by John N.
Berry III. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland,
2002. 442p., alk. paper, $30 (ISBN
0786412534). LC 2001-7509.
Kenneth Kister, of Kister’s Best Encyclope-
dias renown, has tackled the fertile, but
seldom tilled, field of library biography.
What makes Kister’s biography particu-
larly interesting is the fact that its subject,
the legendary Eric Moon, is still very much
alive and kicking. That having been said,
Kister does not shrink from telling all he
has gathered from more than a hundred
hours of interviews with Moon himself
and his second wife, Ilse, but also with his
family (including his mother Grace and his
younger brother, Bryan), and friends and
colleagues (notably, Patricia Glass
Schuman, John N. Berry III, E. J. Josey, and
Arthur Curley, all of whom eventually
served as president of the ALA). Although
Kister lets Moon and others tell their sides
of the story in their own words, he remains
very much in control of the content and
direction of the narrative.
Eric Edward Moon, the first of two
sons of working-class parents Ted and
Grace (Scott) Moon, was born March 6,
1923, in Yeovil, an old town in the south
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of England about sixty miles west of
Southampton, the large port city where
he attended elementary and secondary
school, found his first library job, and
married his first wife, Diana. After gradu-
ating from secondary school, Moon real-
ized that he had no chance of getting a
university education, a dream not easily
attained by the British working class, par-
ticularly in the late 1930s.
His first job, in 1939, was as junior li-
brary assistant at the Southampton Pub-
lic Library. While there, he passed the el-
ementary exam of the Library Associa-
tion, the first rung of the library profes-
sional ladder in England. In 1941, at age
eighteen, he enlisted in the Royal Air
Force and served for the duration of
World War Two in England; Comilla, East
Bengal (then in India, now Bangladesh);
and Singapore. After being discharged in
the summer of 1946, he returned to
Southampton.
In May 1947, Eric married Diana Mary
Simpson, also a junior library assistant in
Southampton. Moon decided to attend
one of the new library schools,
Loughborough College, that had been
created after the war to prepare return-
ing veterans for taking the Library
Association’s registration examination,
another of the qualifying hurdles for li-
brarians in the United Kingdom. There,
he thoroughly enjoyed his studies with
mentor Roy Stokes. Moon passed the reg-
istration exam in the summer of 1948 and
took a second year at Loughborough to
study for the fellowship examination and
earn the prestigious title of Fellow of the
Library Association (FLA). Between the
summer of 1949 and June 1958, he served
as librarian in Hertfordshire (Bushey and
Oxhey); Finchley, north of London;
Brentford and Chiswick, west of London;
and Kensington in London’s West End,
before leaving England for his first job in
North America, as chief librarian in New-
foundland, Canada.
Having been an active member of both
the “staid” Library Association and the
“feisty” Association of Assistant Librar-
ians (Kister ’s adjectives) while in En-
gland, Moon joined the Canadian Library
Association shortly after arriving in New-
foundland, where he served from June
1958 until October 1959. He was wooed
away, with absolutely no reluctance on his
part, from his position in Newfoundland
by Dan Melcher of Bowker in New York.
Melcher was eager for him to take over
the helm of the then stodgy, establish-
ment-oriented Library Journal, founded in
1876 by none other than Melvil Dewey.
Moon joined the ALA and remained an
active member throughout his career.
While editor of Library Journal, from late
autumn of 1959 to the end of December
1968, Moon was able to use LJ as the me-
dium for addressing social and political
responsibilities of librarianship—which
the complacent ALA would have been
more than happy to ignore—including
civil rights, intellectual freedom, poverty,
gender discrimination, government se-
crecy, and the Vietnam War. In 1965, Moon
became a member of the Bowker board of
directors and a citizen of the United States.
Moon’s zeal for reforming the ALA con-
tinued unabated, and in 1965, he was
elected to the ALA Council. He served on
the council from 1965 to 1972, from 1976
to 1979, and from 1982 to 1986. During his
last few months at LJ, about a year after
Bowker was bought out by Xerox, Moon
met Ilse (Bloch) Webb, then a librarian at
the College of William and Mary, at a party
in the notorious LJ suite at the 1968 ALA
Annual Conference in Kansas City, Mo.
Thus began a deep friendship between Eric
and Ilse, who were both unhappily mar-
ried at the time. After a nearly three-year
affair, concluding with his divorce from
Diana and Ilse’s divorce from Ken Webb,
they were married in 1971.
Moon had left LJ in late December of
1968 and in the spring of 1969 began ne-
gotiations with Ted Waller of Grolier Edu-
cational Corporation to take over Scare-
crow Press (then a Grolier subsidiary) as
its chief editor. He officially took over the
reins of the small and struggling press on
July 1, 1969, after the ALA Annual Con-
ference in Atlantic City, during which the
Social Responsibilities Round Table
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(SRRT) was founded. Moon, who was
instrumental in the founding of the SRRT,
remained a loyal member and supporter
throughout his library career.
While still at Scarecrow, Moon trans-
formed this small library press into the
major publishing venture in librarianship
that it is today. In no small way due to his
business acumen at LJ and Scarecrow,
Moon was inaugurated in 1977 as ALA
president at the annual conference in De-
troit. The theme for his ALA presidential
year, to advocate an egalitarian national
information policy, was never fully real-
ized because of the protracted scandal
centering on the release of the film Speaker,
intended to champion First Amendment
rights, but which offended the black lead-
ers and membership of ALA along with
defenders, black and white, of the civil
rights movement.
Moon retired from Scarecrow at the
end of 1978 at age fifty-five, and the
couple moved to Florida. During the
1980s and early 1990s, Eric remained in-
volved in writing and speaking, while Ilse
returned to work, serving as executive
secretary of the Association for Library
and Information Science Education
(ALISE) from 1988 to 1992. In 1993, Scare-
crow published a collection of his writ-
ings and speeches entitled A Desire to
Learn: Selected Writings. Eric, who turned
79 in 2002, and Ilse, his wife of more than
thirty years, are now enjoying a well-de-
served retirement in Florida, filled with
golf, travel, reading, and family.
An example of Moon the mentor is
Robert McFarland Franklin, founder of
McFarland & Company, Inc., in Jefferson,
North Carolina, publisher of this biogra-
phy and Moon’s number two man at
Scarecrow Press during most of the 1970s.
Leaving Scarecrow in March 1979, about
a year or so after Moon, Franklin had su-
pervised publication of McFarland’s first
six books by September 1980.
Kister ’s in-depth biography of Eric
Moon is well written, impeccably docu-
mented, and extensively indexed. It
should be in the collections of academic
libraries throughout the United States and
the United Kingdom, particularly those
serving institutions with graduate pro-
grams in library and information sci-
ence.—Plummer Alston Jones, Jr., East Caro-
lina University.
Neely, Teresa Y. Sociological and Psycho-
logical Aspects of Information Literacy in
Higher Education. Lanham, Md.: Scare-
crow Pr., 2002. 188p., alk. paper, $47.50
(ISBN 0810841053). LC 2002-21214.
“What makes an individual information
literate?” This is the question that Neely
poses in this slim monograph based on
her 2000 doctoral dissertation. Reporting
the results of a survey conducted of stu-
dents at an anonymous research univer-
sity, Neely attempts to shed light on this
question through an analysis of several
factors, including: student attitudes to-
ward information skills (and information
skills instruction), student performance
on information skills assessments, stu-
dent relationships with faculty, student
exposure to the information environment,
and student experience in the information
environment. Although Neely uncovers
important aspects of each of these factors
through her review of the literature and
analysis of the survey data collected, this
monograph ultimately fails to deliver on
the expansive promise of its title and
leaves the reader feeling that it may have
been rushed too quickly from its original
dissertation form.
Like many dissertations, this work be-
gins with the identification of a perceived
lacuna in the literature. Neely argues that
there is a “marked lack of empirical re-
search” on information literacy and that
this has left us with little agreement on
what information literacy actually means
or on how best to design information lit-
eracy instruction in higher education.
Although there is little doubt that the re-
search agenda for those of us interested
in information literacy remains wide
open, one cannot help but think that
Neely is exaggerating both the scope and
the uniqueness of this problem.
Library literature, in general, suffers
from the publication of a great deal of prac-
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