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Books That Inspire, Books That Offend

References and Notes

  1. Sul H. Lee, introduction to Books That Inspire I (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Libraries, 2001): 2.
  2. John M. Budd, Higher Education’s Purpose: Intellectual and Social Progress (Lanham, Md.: Univ. Pr. of America, 2009): 2.
  3. Barbara MacAdam, “Sustaining the Culture of the Book: The Role of Enrichment Reading and Critical Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum,” Library Trends 44 (Fall 1995): 245–46; Julie Elliott, “Academic Libraries and Extracurricular Reading Promotion,” Reference & User Services Quarterly 46 (Spring 2007): 34–43; Amanda Cain, “Archimedes, Reading, and the Sustenance of Academic Research Culture in Library Instruction,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 28 (May 2002): 115; Heidi Gauder, Joan Giglierano, and Christine H. Schramm, “Porch Reads: Encouraging Recreational Reading Among College Students,” College & Undergraduate Libraries 14, no. 2 (2007): 4.
  4. Darwin D. Hendel and Roger D. Harrold, “Undergraduate Student Leisure Interests Over Three Decades,” College Student Journal (Dec. 2004): 557–68.
  5. National Endowment for the Arts, Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading Interests in America, Research Division Report no. 46 (Washington, D.C.: NEA, 2004): 9 (accessed Dec. 22, 2008).
  6. National Endowment for the Arts, Reading on the Rise: A New Chapter in American Literacy (Washington, D.C.: NEA, 2009): 3–5, (accessed July 23, 2009).
  7. “How the New Generation of Well-Wired Multitaskers is Changing Campus Culture,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 5, 2007, Information Technology section, B12.
  8. Lydia Burak, “Examining and Predicting College Students’ Reading Intentions and Behaviors: An Application of the Theory of Reasoned Action,” Reading Horizons 45 (Nov./Dec. 2004): 146.
  9. Debra Von Sprecken and Stephen D. Krashen, “Is there a Decline in the Reading Romance?” Knowledge Quest 30 (Jan./Feb. 2002): 11–17.
  10. Victor Nell, Lost in a Book (New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr., 1988); Brian Sturm, “Chapter 6: The Reader’s Altered State of Consciousness,” in The Readers’ Advisor’s Companion, ed. Kenneth D. Shearer and Robert Burgin (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2001): 97–116; Wayne A. Wiegand, “Chapter Introduction: On the Social Nature of Reading,” in Diana Tixier Herald, Genreflecting, 6th ed., ed. Wayne Wiegand (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2006): 3–14; Janice Radway, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Pr., 1991); Catherine Ross, “Readers’ Advisory Service: New Directions,” RQ 30 (Summer 1991): 503–18.
  11. Catherine Ross, “Finding Without Seeking: What Readers Say About the Role of Pleasure Reading as a Source of Information,” Aplis 13 (June 2000): 72–80; Alma Dawson and Connie Van Fleet, “Chapter 10: Books That Inspire: Nonfiction for a Multicultural Society,” in Nonfiction Readers’ Advisory, ed. Robert Burgin (Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004): 176–96; Jessica Moyer, “Learning from Leisure Reading: A Study of Adult Public Library Patrons,” Reference & User Services Quarterly 46, no. 84 (Summer 2007): 69–82.
  12. Ross, “New Directions,” 509.
  13. Margaret Bald and Ken Wachsberger, Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds, rev. ed., Banned Books (New York: Facts on File, 2006); Nicholas J. Karolides, Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds, rev. ed., Banned Books (New York: Facts on File, 2006); Dawn B. Sova, Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds, rev. ed., Banned Books (New York: Facts on File, 2006); Dawn B. Sova, Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, rev. ed., Banned Books (New York: Facts on File, 2006).
  14. Lee Burress, Battle of the Books: Literary Censorship in the Public Schools, 1950–1985 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1989): 13.
  15. Herbert N. Foerstel, Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries, rev. and exp. ed. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2002): xxv.
  16. Charlene C. Cain, “Librarians and Censorship: The Ethical Imperative,” Louisiana Libraries 68 (Winter 2005): 6–8.
  17. Keith Stavely and Lani Gerson, “We Didn’t Wait for the Censor: Intellectual Freedom at the Watertown Public Library,” Library Journal 108 (Sept. 1, 1983): 1655.
  18. Sul H. Lee, introduction to Books That Inspire II (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Libraries, 2002): iv–v.
  19. The databases used were Library Literature and Information Science and Library Literature and Information Science Retrospective (Wilson); LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts (CSA); and Academic Search Elite, ERIC, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, and Professional Development Collection (EBSCO).
  20. American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee, “The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000” (accessed Mar. 3, 2008).
  21. College Board, “101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers” (accessed Mar. 3, 2008).
  22. Sova, Social Grounds, 277.
  23. Burress, Battle of the Books, 259.
  24. Robert P. Doyle, Banned Books: 2007 Resource Book (Chicago: ALA, 2007): 151.
  25. Bald and Wachsberger, Religious Grounds, 14.
  26. Burress, Battle of the Books, 222.
  27. Walter C. Farrell Jr., “Black Like Me: In Defense of a Racial Reality,” in Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints, ed. Nicholas J. Karolides, Lee Burress, and John M. Kean (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1993): 118.
  28. Burress, Battle of the Books, 124.
  29. Doyle, Banned Books, 109–11.
  30. Robert Justin Goldstein, Political Censorship, The New York Times Twentieth Century in Review (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001): 409; Doyle, Banned Books, 36; Doyle, Banned Books, 50–51.
  31. Bald and Wachsberger, Religious Grounds, 84.
  32. Karolides, Political Grounds, 21–23.
  33. Nellie Y. McKay and Dave Junker, “Literature, History, and Social Value: In Defense of Native Son,” in Censored Books II: Critical Viewpoints, 1985–2000, ed. Nicholas J. Karolides (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2002): 324.
  34. Burress, Battle of the Books, 270; Marci Lingo, “Forbidden Fruit: The Banning of The Grapes of Wrath in the Kern County Free Library,” Libraries and Culture 38 (Fall 2003): 352.
  35. Doyle, Banned Books, 82.
  36. John S. Simmons, “A Look Inside a Landmark: The Outsiders,” in Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints, ed. Nicholas J. Karolides, Lee Burress, and John M. Kean (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1993): 440–41.
  37. Doyle, Banned Books, 100; Jonathon Green and Nicholas J. Karolides, Encyclopedia of Censorship, rev. ed. (New York: Facts on File, 2005): 571–72.
  38. Bald and Wachsberger, Religious Grounds, 88.
  39. Doyle, Banned Books, 135.
  40. Goldstein, Political Censorship, 409.
  41. Derek Jones, Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, 4 vols. (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001): 649.
  42. Bald and Wachsberger, Religious Grounds, 83–84.
  43. Foerstel, Banned in the U.S.A., 101.
  44. Jones, World Encyclopedia, 472.
  45. Adam Zagorin and Frank Gibney Jr., “Fracas Follows Book About Nanking Atrocity,” Time 151 (May 11, 1998): 16.
  46. Jones, World Encyclopedia, 1290–1293; Kenneth R. Stevens, “Ulysses on Trial,” The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin 20/21 (1982): 95; Goldstein, Political Censorship, 73.
  47. Burress, Battle of the Books, 100.
  48. Doyle, Banned Books, 65.
  49. Burress, Battle of the Books, 337.
  50. Foerstel, Banned in the U.S.A., xxv.
  51. Burress, Battle of the Books, 13.
  52. Ross, “New Directions,” 509.

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