公众表达自由权视阈下图书馆社会角色与行业自律研究——以“美国政府诉美国图书馆协会”一案为考察对象

A Study on the Social Roles and Self-disciplines of the Library in the Public Right to Free Expression——As the Object of “the United States v. the American Library Association”

文章就"美国政府诉美国图书馆协会"一案为考察对象,分析该案的案件事实、法律意见以及对于图书馆发展的启示。在法律意见方面,分别评析本案的多数意见、协同意见、反对意见的主要观点。在对于图书馆发展的启示方面,借助当代法律社会学家贡特·托依布纳的"反身法理论",阐释图书馆的社会角色与行业自律。这些观点的借鉴意义在于,通过指出图书馆在本案涉及的少年儿童免受淫秽色情信息污染方面所具有的重要规范作用,表明图书馆不仅是当代社会信息流通的重要渠道,亦在形成与规范公众共同价值取向方面扮演重要角色。

On the case ＂United States v. American Library Association＂ for the object of study this paper analyzes the case facts, legal opinion and enlightenment to the development of the library. In the aspect of legal opinions, respectively it analyzes the main ideas of the case of majority opinion and concurring opinion and dissenting opinion. In the aspect of development for library, with the aid of ＂Reflexive Law＂ on contemporary law sociologist Gunther Teubner, illustrates the social roles and self-disciplines of the library. Significance lies in the point of view, by the important norm of library in the case avoiding young children to pollute pornographic information, suggests that the library is not only an important channel to the information circulation on the contemporary society, also plays an important role of the formation and standardization of the public common value orientation.