Slightly offensive images of the U.S. president shouldn’t be a problem. We get The Spectator and other political magazines with extreme caricatures on the front cover, it’s not a big deal. “Obscenity” has been an issue with the U.S. postal service, but that doesn’t apply here. A German publisher who’s self-censoring is perplexing.

 

Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian

Tutt Library, Colorado College

diane.westerfield@coloradocollege.edu

(719) 389-6661

 

 

 

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of HINDS, Beverley Y
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 9:48 AM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Stern Magazine Censorship

 

Hi all

 

I’m an academic librarian in the Caribbean and have been following this thread with great interest.

For clarification, what precipitates  censorship of materials received by a  library in the United States?

 

 

Beverley Hinds

Librarian

Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies (SALISES)

University of the West Indies

Cave Hill Campus

Bridgetown

BARBADOS

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From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Huffman, Jennifer
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 11:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Stern Magazine Censorship

 

Hi everyone,

 

FYI.  After 4 different contacts with the publisher of Stern Magazine, I finally received an email reply.  I’ve copied and pasted the text from that email below.  It was not very helpful.  So I sent a follow up email asking for clarification.  Stay tuned.

 

Jennifer Huffman

UW – Stevens Point Libary

 

Dear Mrs Huffman,

 

Thank you very much for your email.

 

The issue that you want to order sadly cannot be delivered to the United States. We are very sorry we cannot fulfill your request.

 

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From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Maria Michelle Sitko
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 12:35 PM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Stern Magazine Censorship

 

I doubt very much that it is the publisher.  It is more likely to be the distributor or another source in the processing chain to the US that appears to be acting as a possible censor.  Would be interesting to find the source.

--Michelle Sitko

Marywood University Learning Commons

 

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Huffman, Jennifer <Jennifer.Huffman@uwsp.edu> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the feedback.

I have written to the publisher and asked why the U.S. is not receiving certain issues of Stern with no explanation.  I have not heard back yet.

I did call GLP International (who imports our print format of Stern) and they did not have an explanation.  From their website, I see only 2 operational notes about issue 35 and 47 not coming to the U.S.  You can see them at https://www.glpnews.com/Status.html and they read:

11/17/17

Stern issue 47:  This issue is not being exported to the USA.  No reason has been given.  All subscribers will have their subscriptions extended by one issue.

8/24/17 - Stern issue 35/17

This issue is not being exported to the USA.  No reason has been given.  All subscribers will have their subscriptions extended by one issue.

Jennifer Huffman
Serials Librarian
UW-Stevens Point Library



-----Original Message-----
From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Diane Westerfield
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 10:11 AM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Stern Magazine Censorship

We also subscribe to Stern. We did not receive v.59 no. 35 Aug.24, and have not yet received v.59 no.47 Nov.16.



I assumed this was over explicit nudity, but I see it's political. Why would the publisher self-censor that? I think the academic libraries in the U.S. can handle it. (You can see far worse photoshops anywhere on the web).



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Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian

Tutt Library, Colorado College

diane.westerfield@coloradocollege.edu

(719) 389-6661









-----Original Message-----

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Huffman, Jennifer

Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 1:09 PM

To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG

Subject: [SERIALST] Stern Magazine Censorship



Hi everyone,



Do any other libraries on this list subscribe to the print format of Stern Magazine?  We subscribe and we just received another notice from GLP International that "due to circumstances beyond our control issue 47 of Stern was not made available for export to the USA.  We regret this inconvenience and have extended your subscription by one issue."



We have noticed a trend in these notices and based on the cover art, we believe the publisher is censoring what is exported to the U.S.  We are not interested in an extension of our subscription.  Rather we are interested in the missing issue with which we subscribed.



Has anyone else received these notices that the publisher is not sending issue 47?  We are also missing issue 35 and were sent the same notice for that issue.  If you look at the cover art for the missing issues, they have a common theme.



Jennifer Huffman

Serials Librarian

UW-Stevens Point Library



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