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Reading practices and Intellectual freedom Research

Reading practices and Intellectual freedom Research. Emily J.M. Knox Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Early Research on Reading in LIS.

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Reading practices and Intellectual freedom Research

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  1. Reading practices and Intellectual freedom Research Emily J.M. Knox Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2. Early Research on Reading in LIS • Integral component of graduate education at the Graduate Library School (GLS) at the University of Chicago • Ended in 1932 • The GLS and librarianship “walked away from an opportunity.” Image: Seattle Municipal Archives

  3. Investigation into Reading as Practice • “Ideas and assumptions underlying reading in the past” – R. Darnton • Reading as a social practice – E. Long • Interpretive Strategies – S. Fish • Give shape to reading • Shape to texts • Do not come from the texts themselves

  4. Censorship Practices • Removing, restricting, or relocating materials • Requesting—either orally or in writing—that materials be removed, restricted, or relocated • Self-censorship

  5. Interpretive Strategies and Censorship Practices • Common sense interpretations of text prevail • Fear of the undisciplined imagination • Imaginative visualization and mimesis • Concern with short- and long-term effects of reading on the reader Image: Susan Hoerth. Altered Book Grimm's Fairy Tales. http://www.etsy.com/listing/96544675/altered-book-grimms-fairy-tales

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