id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crl-15534	Rhodes, Kelly C.	Libraries & Democracy: The Cornerstones of Liberty. Ed. Nancy Kranich. Chicago: ALA, 2001. 223p. $32 (ISBN 083890808X). LC 2001-22974.	2002	3	.pdf	application/pdf	2588	148	44	If we look at the institutions that embody and best symbolize our democratic ideals, libraries are at the fore- front, especially in their defense of free and open access to information for all people. Susan B. Kretchmer, author of “The Li- brary Internet Access Controversy and De- mocracy,” provides an excellent and infor- mative overview on the use of filtering soft- ware in libraries and the controversy this has generated as a potential threat to the open access to information and the public’s right to know.	cache/crl-15534.pdf	txt/crl-15534.txt