'Bearing Gifts: How Librarians Deal with Gift Books and Gift Givers

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Journal of Information Ethics 1:52-9 (1992)
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We present and discuss the responses to a survey we sent to selected libraries regarding their decisions to accept unsolicited book donations, especially regarding any with an apparent political or proselytizing intent.

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