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Tilley, Carol L.

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Of nightingales and supermen: How youth services librarians responded to comics between the years 1938 and 1955.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Of nightingales and supermen: How youth services librarians responded to comics between the years 1938 and 1955./
Author:	Tilley, Carol L.
Description:	297 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Debora Shaw.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-09A.
Subject:	Library Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3277995
ISBN:	9780549216506

Of nightingales and supermen: How youth services librarians responded to comics between the years 1938 and 1955.
Tilley, Carol L.

Of nightingales and supermen: How youth services librarians responded to comics between the years 1938 and 1955. - 297 p.

Adviser: Debora Shaw.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2007.

In 1937, librarian Frances Clarke Sayers used Hans Christian Anderson's story of the emperor and the nightingale to rally youth services librarians to return to their fundamental belief in the power of imaginative literature to bring delight, epiphanies, and catharsis to young readers. Youth services librarianship, a profession whose work centered on selecting and recommending books to young people in school and public libraries, was an established profession. Yet, in 1938, the profession found itself struggling against an upstart medium: comic books. Comic books were the dominant cultural force in the lives of young people from 1938---the first appearance of Superman---through 1955, when the comics industry bowed to intense public scrutiny and adopted a restrictive editorial code governing its publications. The profession's ambivalence toward comics---despite their popularity among young readers and in the absence of compelling research that the medium harmed its readers---hampered its ability to contribute meaningfully to any dialogue about children's reading that took place outside the profession's boundaries. Although the profession liberalized its views on young people's relationship with books in other ways during these years, its insular attitude contributed to the longevity of the profession's belief in what it viewed as the true nightingale: those materials selected by librarians, not children.

ISBN: 9780549216506Subjects--Topical Terms:

881164
Library Science.

Of nightingales and supermen: How youth services librarians responded to comics between the years 1938 and 1955.
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