Publications

Contributor to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature, Hans Ostrum and J. David Macey, editors. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. Including essays on Arnaud Bontemps, Nikki Giovanni, Alex Haley, Melvin Tolson, and Ann Allen Shockley.

“Civil Rights and the Louisiana Library Association: Stumbling toward Integration.” Libraries & Culture 38:4 (Fall 2003): 322-50. Online (Project Muse subscription required).

“Tennessee Authors Project: A Unique Cultural Heritage.” [University of Tennessee Libraries] The Library Development Review (2002-3): 8-9.

“Writers in the Library: Literary Programming on a Shoestring.” College & Research Libraries News 63:6 (June 2002): 423-425. Online (ACRL website).

“Discourse and Censorship: Librarians and the Ideology of Freedom.” Counterpoise 3:3/4 (July/October 1999): 14-18. Online (reprinted in Library Juice. Also reprinted in Alternative Library Literature, 1998/99).

“Webliography: The Process of Building Internet Subject Access.” The Acquisitions Librarian 17/18 (1997): 29-43.

“Freedom of the Web.” Counterpoise 1:2 (April 1997): 7-8. (Selected to be reprint in Alternative Library Literature, 1996/97).

“A Survey of Censorship in Louisiana Public Libraries, 1992-1994.” LLA Bulletin 58 (Winter 1996): 145-152.

Harer, John B., and Steven R. Harris. Censorship of Expression in the 1980s: A Statistical Survey. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

In Preparation:

Johnson, Kathleen, and Steven R. Harris, eds. Teaching Literary Research: Challenges in a Changing Environment, ACRL Literatures in English Section edited volume.