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Course Description
Focuses on current intellectual freedom issues and the centrality of intellectual freedom to librarianship.
Prerequisites: LIBR 200, 204
Course Objectives
- To understand the applicability of the First Amendment to libraries.
- To understand the centrality of intellectual freedom to librarianship.
- To be familiar with current intellectual freedom issues.
Textbooks
Required Text
Intellectual Freedom Handbook. (Chicago: American Library Association, 6th edition)
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Course Requirements
Schedule of Meetings
This class will meet on Thursdays 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm on the following dates:
- September: 1, 8,15, 22, 29
- October: 13, 20, 27 (NB> no class on October 6)
- November: 3, 10, 17 (NB > no class on November 24)
- December: 1, 8
Grading
You will be evaluated through the following assignments:
| Critique |
10% |
| Banned Book Note |
20% |
| Case Summary |
20% |
| Participation |
20% |
| Paper |
30% |
This is a graduate seminar. Graduate level work is expected. Take considerable care with your writing. Use the APA style manual B one you will later use in the Culminating Experience (e.g. LIBR 289). Get someone you trust to read and review your writing BEFORE you turn anything in. The way you say what you say does affect how your message gets through, or if it does.
Assignments
1. Critique of a Statement of Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights
Due: 5pm September 9. Post to the class reflector list. Read everyone's for discussion on September 15.
2. Banned Book Note
Find the list of Banned Books on the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom Web site. Assume a library of size, type and location of your choosing. This library has a written collection development and materials selection policy. Choose a banned book, read it, and in no more than 1000 words describe why this book should or should not be in this library's collection. [Hint: the harder your recommendation is to make, the easier it will be to write about.]
Post your selection note to the class reflector list by not later than 5:00p, September 23.
3. Case analysis
This is an oral assignment. See details.
4. Term Paper
You choose the topic. This is a graduate seminar paper and represents nearly one-third of your course grade. There is no length limitation; but longer isn't necessarily better.
Due: December 8 3:30pm.
Submit to me by e-mail as an attachment in WORD; you may also if you choose to post to the class reflector list.
- Post the topic you have chosen to the class reflector list by not later than 5:00p on October 1.
- Make an appointment to meet with me regarding your topic, or arrange to communicate by e-mail or phone during October, to discuss research strategies and resources.
- You will make an oral presentation to the whole class based on your paper. The exact amount of time (length) for the presentation will be determined by the total enrollment in this class but should be expected to not exceed 15 minutes.
- You will identify ONE item that you deem important or significant background reading for your topic and post it or a citation or link to it to the class reflector list at least one week before your presentation.
5. Class participation
Silence is not golden; inordinate fondness for one's own voice is not valuable either.
Summary of Milestone Dates
The assignments for this course must be submitted on the the following dates and times.
| 9/9 |
Critique due (5 PM) |
| 9/16 |
Select Case (5 PM) |
| 9/23 |
Selection Note due (5 PM) |
| 10/1 |
Select Term Project topic (5 PM) |
| 12/8 |
Term Project due (3:30 PM) |
Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities
Students who need accommodation due to a disability must register with SJSU's Disability Resource Center (DRC) during the first three weeks of the semester. The Center will work with the students to determine the disability, document it, and determine the services and accommodations necessary for student success. Then, the DRC will contact the faculty member to determine the types of consideration necessary.
Students attending the Fullerton campus should first contact the Disability Resource Center in San José since they are SJSU students. The DRC will then direct the students to supporting resources on the Fullerton campus.
The DRC Web site: http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/
Academic Integrity
Read the SJSU Academic Integrity Policy
http://www2.sjsu.edu/senate/S04-12.pdf
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