UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS,
Urbana-Champaign
Taught by Terry L. Weech and Marsha C. Woodbury
Readings are either in paper copies included in the Required Readings Packet
or archived on the Web (if on the Web, a URL is given, and all of these URLs
will be linked
from the class home page).
I. Introduction
Introductory readings in the Required Readings packet, including "Notes toward a Definition of Libraries, "Library Bill of Rights," and others.
Borges, Jorge Luis. "The Library of Babel," in his Ficciones (tr. by Anthony Kerrigan. New York: Grove Press, 1963), pp. 79-88. [Also in his Labyrinths (tr. by James E. Irby; New York: New Directions, 1962), pp. 51-59]
Krummel, D. W. Fiat lux, fiat latebra. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1983 [Revised version, 1994]
II. The Message in the Medium
Baker, Nicholson. "Annals of Scholarship: Discards," The New Yorker, vol. 70, no. 7 (April 4, 1994), pp. 64-86.
Rothenberg, Jeff. "Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents," Scientific American, Jan. 1995, pp. 42-47.
III. The Message in the Institution
Harris, Michael. "The Purpose of the American Public Library: A Revisionist Interpretation of History," Library Journal, 98 (Sept. 1973), 2509-
Dain, Phyllis. "Ambivalence and Paradox: The Social Bonds of the Public Library," Library Journal, 100 (1975), 261-66.
IV. The Message in Special Initiatives
Grimes, William. "Libraries Ponder Role In the Digital Age," The New York Times, April 39, 1996, 1,4.
Schiller, Herbert I., and Anita R. Schiller. "Libraries, Public Access to Information, and Commerce," in Vincent Mosco and Janet Wasko, The Political Economy of Information, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988), pp. 146-66.
Lamolinara, Guy, "Metamorphosis of a National Treasure." American Libraries, [March 1996], 31-33
V. The Message in the Mission
Heckart, Ronald J. "The Library as a Marketplace of Ideas," College & Research Libraries, 52 (1991), 491-505.
Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. "Metaphors of Reading." Journal of Library History, 22 (1987), 147-63.
Pollitt, Katha. "Canon to the Right of Me (Why We Read)," The Nation, 253 (Sept. 23, 1991), pp. 328-32.
VI. Intellectual Property
* These first two readings are found of the Web, not in Required Readings Packet
* Okerson, Ann. "Who Owns Digital Works?" Scientific American, August 1996. [URL: http://www.sciam.com/WEB/0796issue/0796okerson.html
* U. S. Copyright Law, 17 U.S.C. sec 107-108 (URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html). Go to "U.S. Copyright Act" and then to Chapt. 1 and read section 107-108.
Selected Statements on Copyright (in Required Readings Packet):
National Information Initiative. Intellectual Property Rights: Preliminary Draft of the Report. (summer 1994)
Intellectual Property: An Association of Research Libraries statement of Principles.
Crews, Kenneth, "What Qualifies as `Fair Use'" The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 17, 1996, pp. B1-B2.
VII. Intellectual Freedom
Materials relating to the Bartlesville censorship incident:
[2.] Darlene Anderson Essary, "Hush-Hush in Bartlesville" (letter to the editor), Saturday Review (Sept. 30, 1950), p. 24.
[3.] David Berninghausen, "Film Censorship," A.L.A. Bulletin, 44 (Dec. 1950), 447-48
[4.] "Legal Action Taken . . . , ", ibid., 451.
[5.] "Censorship in Bartlesville" (Oklahoma Library Association, Committee on Intellectual Freedom), ibid., 45 (March 1951), 87-90.
[6.] Everett T. Moore, "Bartlesville, and After" ("Intellectual Freedom" column), ibid., 54 (Nov. 1960), 815-17.
[7.] Rice Estes, "Segregated Libraries," Library Journal, 85 (Dec. 15, 1960), 4418-22
[8.] "Segregation in Libraries" ("Readers' Voice" column of Letters to the Editor, responding to Estes, ibid., pp. 730-36 passim.
Asheim, Lester. "Not Censorship but Selection," Wilson Library Bulletin, 28 (1953), 63-67.
VIII. Library and Information Science as a Profession
Abbott, Andrew. The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1988. 331.71209 AB26S / LSX [esp. ch. 8: "The Information Professions," pp. 215-46
Draper, Hal. "MS FND IN A LBRY," Library Journal, 87 (1962), 916-19. [From Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1961]
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