Finding Aid for Gordon McShean Papers, 1967-1978 | The American Library Association Archives

Title: Gordon McShean Papers, 1967-1978

ID: 49/48/2

Primary Creator: McShean, Gordon

Extent: 1.0 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject title

Date Acquired: 10/21/1982

Subjects: National Freedom Fund for Librarians, Obscenity, Pornography, Sex-Related Media Task Force, SRRT, Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT)

Languages: English

Papers of Gordon McShean, founder of SRRT Task Force on Sex-Related Media (SRMTF), (SRMTF coordinator, 1971-73), (Illinois Social Responsibilities Round Table coordinator, 1969-70), (National Freedom Fund for Librarians director, c. 1970), (Librarians for Full Employment coordinator, 1972), and (Society for Creative Political Literature president, 1973-74), contains papers and articles, publications, resolutions and statements, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, and bibliographies, includes efforts to educate librarians on a need to acquire sex-related materials, especially underrepresented viewpoints, freedom of access to information, censorship cases involving materials and librarians, consideration of ALA's position on social issues, especially intellectual freedom, communication among activist librarians, the role SRMTF as a unit of SRRT, and sensitivity of librarians to community needs.

Gordon McShean was born on October 7, 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland. He received an associate degree in English from El Camino College. At the University of Southern California, McShean earned a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in Library Science. He worked for Stanford University Library and Stanislaus County Free Library in Modesto, CA. McShean was coordinator of the Task Force on Sex-Related Media for ALA’s Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT).

Repository: The American Library Association Archives

Other Note: 3 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/4948002a.pdf

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