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Challenged, Censored & Banned Literature |
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"Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and
ignorance."
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Lyndon Baines Johnson, February 11,
1964
Celebrate your freedom to read...Check out a banned book!
Print Resources:
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Banned
in the U.S.A. (REF 025.213)This expanded edition presents a thorough analysis of the current state of book banning in schools and public libraries, offering ready reference material on major incidents, legal cases, and annotated entries on the most frequently challenged books. |
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Novels
for Students (REF 808 NOV) Headings under Novel titles include Plot Summary, Characters, Media Adoptions, Themes, Styles, Historical Context with a Compare and Contrast section, and Critical Overview. |
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Banned
Books Literature Suppressed Series
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Be sure to check Athena, our library's online book catalog for the title or author of your selected work.
Online Resources:
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Contemporary Literary Criticism
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study. |
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Scribner's Writers Series |
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Student Research Center
Contains thousands of online
primary documents,
biographies, topical
essays, background information, and critical analyses of popular literature. Select Literature Search tab, then type in title of work. Click link to left to access database. |
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The Twayne Authors Series
Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors. |
If you do not find what you're looking for in the above resources, try the search tips listed below.
Internet Search Tips
- Type the URL (web site
address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex:
www.yahoo.com,
www.google.com or
http://scholar.google.com/.
- (Be sure to type the address
exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and
punctuation).
- Type in keyword(s). (If your
keyword has two parts such as: "Mark Twain", be sure to put
quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites
on old English as opposed to all of the sites containing the word Mark
plus all of the sites containing the word Twain.
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If you would like to search for something specific about Mark Twain, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma followed by a space and your other search term. For instance; if I wanted to find information on the critical reception Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I would enter the following:
"Mark Twain", "Huckleberry Finn", criticism, censorship
Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
- Be sure to critically evaluate
Internet sources. UC Berkley Library's
Evaluating Webpages: Techniques to Apply and
Questions to Ask is an
excellent source to help you critique the quality of websites in the
following areas:
- Authority: Can you tell if the author is credible (believable)?
- Objectivity: Is the information objective (honest and free of bias)?
- Currency: Is the information recent and up-to-date?
- Design: Is the site designed in a clear and user friendly way?
- Navigation: Is the site easy to navigate through, and are all links current and usable?
- Remember: if you choose to use any information
(text or graphics) found on an Internet source,
you must include it in your bibliography.
Remember:
YOU MUST CITE EVERY RESOURCE YOU
USED to gather information on your
Works Cited (Bibliography) page. Use the
Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.
Created by Liza Zandonella, Library Media Specialist.
