Excuse me, how do I commit suicide? Access to ethically disputed items of information in public libraries

Abstract

Reports the findings of an investigation carried out in Slovenian public libraries, which was designed to determine whether librarians would be reluctant to provide information or materials on ethically disputed topics. The three topics used in the test were: suicide, necrophilia, and photographs or pictures of corpses. The conclusions were that the issue was a matter of quality of reference services,

Citation

Juznic, P., Urbanija, J., Grabrijan, E., Miklavc, S., Oslaj, D. and Svoljsak, S. (2001), "Excuse me, how do I commit suicide? Access to ethically disputed items of information in public libraries", Library Management, Vol. 22 No. 1/2, pp. 75-80. https://doi.org/10.1108/01435120110358961