Locating Print Resources

Check 025.213 and 363.3. Biographies are in 921. Search the BLA catalog for information about your author.

Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries	025.2 FOE
Banned Books: 2004 Resource Book	025.213 DOY
Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds	363.3 KAR
Contemporary Literary Criticism	REF 809 CON
Modern Black Writers	809 MO
Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism	REF 809 NIN
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism	REF 809 TWE
A Library of Literary Criticism	REF 820.9 MOU
For help locating articles in the GALE Literary Criticism books, go to http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex

Databases

Pick up a copy of "Biblioteca Las Americas Digital Resources" at the reference desk for home access codes and passwords.

Good sources for this topic: Proquest eLibrary, Learning: Literature, and Online; Britannica Online; Oxford English;
and Gale InfoTrac OneFile.

Websites

Banned Books Week from the American Library Association http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm Tips on dealing with book challenges, information about intellectual freedom, toolkits, posters and more!

The Free Expression Policy Project http://www.fepproject.org/commentaries/patriotact.html The Impact of the USA PATRIOT Act on Free Expression.

Bonfire of the Liberties http://www.humanities-interactive.org/literature/bonfire/ The history of censorship in the humanities from the Texas Council for the Humanities.

The Censorship Pages http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/ Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press are the main topics here, with information about Banned Books, the Internet and helpful links.

The Online Books Page Presents Banned Books Online http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html Stay up-to-date on books suppressed or censored by legal authorities.

For an international flavor, go to: Beacon for Freedom of Expression http://www.beaconforfreedom.org/ an international database on censorship of books and newspapers, and literature on freedom of expression, produced by the Norwegian Forum for Freedom of Expression.

Check out The First Amendment Center : http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/ Search for banned books, censorship, etc.

Plan2Succeed wants to stop the ALA from endangering children http://www.plan2succeed.org/ They say, "1)  The ALA believes children may access inappropriate material because it would be age discimination to keep them from seeing it. 2)  The ALA creates lists of books containing inappropriate selections for children of different grades. "

Parents Against Bad Books in Schools http://www.pabbis.com/org.html "The main purpose of this webpage is to identify some books that might be considered bad and why someone might consider them bad. Another purpose of this webpage is to provide information related to bad books in schools." There are many links to other sites that support banning books.

 Citation Guides

Handouts on APA and MLA format are located on the shelf by the computers.

Reference books - Check them out - REF 808.

http://www.noodletools.com - Passwords are available at the library.