Red Bud High School

Databases:
EBSCOhost MAS Ultra Online for High School should be your first stop for any research assignment. See Mrs. McCutcheon for information on how to create your own EBSCO account to save your searches and your articles.
Username: redbud Password: See your handout

Issues & Controversies is a database perfect for any student doing research on controversial social issues such as the death penalty, drunk driving laws, censorship... It presents information available on both sides of any issue.
Username: rbhsmedia          Password: See your handout

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is similar to Issues & Controversies, but it offers much more depth and analysis into many more subjects. OVRC offers not only opposing arguments, but extensive reference material, primary sources, reviewed websites, and statistics.
No Username required.     Password: See your handout

NoodleTools

Websites:
Public Agenda is a nonpartisan opinion research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand critical issues since 1975. Be sure to check out the overview, fact file, and discussion guides for Internet Speech/Privacy.

Clusty.com is a meta-search engine that not only searches several other search engines for information, it also clusters results in a left-hand column under topics you might not have considered. Want to get to some deep web sites? In the Clusty search bar, type what you are looking for and the words AND database . Ex: "challenged books" AND "Harry Potter" AND database.

Banned Books Online is sponsored by The Online Books Page of the University of Pennsylvania and includes brief descriptions of banned books.

NCTE Censorship Challenge News is maintained by the National Council of Teachers of English and includes newsworthy information concerning censorship issues.

Shooting the Messenger: Why Censorship Won't Stop Violence is an essay with a bibliography published by the Media Coalition, a trade association that defends the First Amendment rights of publishers, booksellers, librarians, periodical wholesalers and distributors, recording, motion picture and video games producers, and recording and video retailers in the United States. NOTE: This is a pdf file. You must have Adobe Reader to read it.

Fahrenheit 451

For your Fahrenheit 451 project focusing specifically on banned books, check out the sites below.

No study of challenged and banned literature is complete without a visit to the site of the American Library Association. Be sure to check out links to Intellectual Freedom, as well.

Celebrate Your Freedom to Read celebrates the 25th anniversary of Banned Book Week by including descriptions of and links to more information about 42 books that have been banned. These 42 books are among the 100 best novels of the 20th century as recognized by Radcliffe Publishing Course.

Censored: Wielding the Red Pen, sponsored by the University of Virginia Libraries, is a fascinating look at censorship issues throughout history. Click on the drop-down menu and choose. Can you spend less that five minutes on this site? I don't think so....

University of California at Berkeley Summer Reading Lists are built around themes and made up of books recommended by faculty and staff. Their 2002 summer reading theme was Banned Books. Faculty members do not discuss why the books were banned, but they do tell why they love the banned books they have read.

Banned Books: A Pathfinder is an excellent source for general information on censorship as well as specific information on banned books. This page was put together by MLS graduate student, Michelle Roberts, from the University at Albany. Links to Internet sources will be valuable.