Libraries in times of war, revolution, and social change

Christine Jenkins is associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches courses in youth services, young adult literature, and literacy. Her research explores various aspects of historical and contemporary connections between texts and young readers.

A former school librarian with an M.S. in library and information science and an M.A. in English/children's literature, she received her Ph.D. in library and information science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995; her dissertation is a historical study of the role of U.S. youth services librarians in defending young people's right to read during the early Cold War era. Her work has appeared in Library Quarterly, Library Trends, Libraries and Culture, Horn Book Magazine, VOYA, School Library Journal, and Book List. She recently co-authored (with Michael Cart) The Heart Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004 (Scarecrow Press, 2006). Chapters by Jenkins are included in Learning, Culture, and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice (Peter Lang, 2004); Books, Libraries, Reading, and Publishing in the Cold War (Library of Congress, 2002); and Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In (Ablex, 1996).

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