Librarianship has a propensity to sanitize its history. As evidence for this statement, this article uses the Library Bill of Rights that the American Library Association adopted in 1939 and the School Library Bill of Rights that the American Association of School Librarians adopted in 1955 as lenses through which to view the profession’s response to selected events in American library history since 1939. By such means, the article attempts to show that librarianship has manifested a consistent desire to control the narrative surrounding libraries and their defense of intellectual freedom and opposition to censorship.

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消毒美国图书馆历史：图书馆历史学家的反思

图书馆学有清理其历史的倾向。作为此声明的证据，本文以美国图书馆协会1939年通过的《图书馆权利法案》和1955年美国学校图书馆员协会通过的《学校图书馆权利法案》为视角，从中可以查看该专业对某些专业的反应自1939年以来，美国图书馆史上发生了许多大事。通过这种方式，本文试图表明，图书馆员一直表现出对控制周围图书馆叙事及其控制知识自由和反对审查制度的一贯渴望。