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Academic Library Holdings Of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2007","","Academic libraries act as stewards of challenged titles, yet selection decisions still involve risk when works face public scrutiny. Using the American Library Association’s 2007 Challenged Books list and WorldCat holdings, the study evaluates how many academic libraries acquire and provide access to these controversial titles. 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Academic Library Holdings Of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2007  \nBy Rickey Best  \nAbstract  \nAcademic libraries often serve as the protectors of challenged books. Pressure on public libraries to remove controversial works can and often does result in the restriction of access or removal of the work from those libraries shelves. Academic libraries, however, operate with a stronger sense of academic and intellectual freedom. To analyze how well academic libraries doin acquiring and making available books which appear on the American Library Association‘s Challenged Books list, the list for 2007 was analyzed in WorldCat to determine the number and overall percentage of academic libraries holding the titles. Overall, 29.94% of the libraries holding challenged books were academic libraries.  \nIntroduction  \nWhile academic libraries are generally free from the challenges of items faced by school and public librarians, issues concerning selection remain. Selection choices are generally directed by collection development policies which are aligned with institutional curricula. But do academic libraries shy away from books which might be considered controversial? Or are the intellectual freedom issues and curricular development strong enough to overcome personal hesitations to add a controversial title like Madonna‘s Sex? Does the inclusion of specific courses within the university curricula which deal with children‘s or young adult literature have an influence on the addition of titles? Perhaps the inclusion of a School of Education or Library and Information Science has an influence? Does geographic location make a difference in terms of the cultural mores impacting decisions on selecting?  \nThe Top Ten Challenged Books of 2007  \nThe American Library Association‘s top ten most challenged books for the year 2007 list was chosen since the time frame between the publication of the list and the inclusion of a library‘s holdings in OCLC‘s WorldCat was sufficient to allow for the purchase and inclusion of recently published title(s) . The  \nlist, posted on the ALA website 1, lists as the most challenged books the following:  \n1. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell. (2005)  \n2. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier.(1974)  \n3. Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes. (2003)  \n4. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman.(1995)  \n5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. (1884)  \n6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker.(1982)  \n7. TTYL by Lauren Myracle. (2004)  \n8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. (1969)  \n9. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris.(1994)  \n10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. (1999)  \nIntellectual Freedom vs. Censorship  \nThe Office of Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association annually prepares a list of the most challenged books in libraries. In examining the information from the OIF‘s Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom for the past three years, we see few challenges involving academic libraries.2 The majority of these challenges were for artistic and intellectual freedom, such as the inclusion of art exhibits or the intellectual  \nfreedom issues not related to printed works. The vast majority of challenges, however, are to be found in public and school libraries over the inclusion of specific works within the libraries collections.  \nAnne Scott MacLeod addresses the issues affecting censorship of children‘s literature in her book American Childhood: Essays on Children’s Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth century’s. MacLeod argues the debate over censorship of children‘s literature is based upon whether children have the same intellectual rights as adults have – ―is the concept of intellectual freedom applicable to children? Is that concept, in fact, even compatible with the concept of childhood?‖3 MacLeod identifies two assumptions to modern views of childhood. She writes that ―The first [assumption] is that children nee","cbCaiqt2vGegJ8bT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqt2vGegJ8bT","pdf",301289,18,"English","# Introduction\n## The Top Ten Challenged Books of 2007\n## Intellectual Freedom vs. Censorship","[{\"question\":\"How are academic libraries different from public and school libraries regarding challenged books?\",\"answer\":\"Academic libraries are described as generally more protected from challenges faced by school and public librarians, though selection issues still arise through collection development policies.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the 2007 list of challenged books analyzed in the study?\",\"answer\":\"The ALA’s top ten most challenged books for 2007 were matched against WorldCat to determine the number and percentage of academic libraries holding each title.\"},{\"question\":\"What percentage of libraries holding the 2007 challenged books were academic libraries?\",\"answer\":\"Overall, 29.94% of the libraries holding the challenged books were academic libraries.\"}]","Censorship or Selection? 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