BEFORE:
Your enquiry about the
use of the entrance area at the library for the purpose of displaying
posters and leaflets about Welfare and Supplementary Benefit rights,
gives rise to the question of the provenance and authoritativeness
of the material to be displayed. Posters and leaflets issued by
the Central Office of Information, the Department of Health and
Social Security and other authoritative bodies are usually displayed
in libraries, but items of a disputatious or polemic kind, whilst
not necessarily excluded, are considered individually.
AFTER:
Thank you for your letter
asking permission to put up posters in the entrance area of the
library. Before we can give you an answer we will need to see a
copy of the posters to make sure they won't offend anyone.
[From the
Plain English Campaign]