Brief Biography

Dianne McAfee Hopkins
1944-

Dianne McAfee Hopkins spent her childhood in Houston, Texas and recieved her undergraduate degree from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. She went on to get her graduate degree from Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. She did her graduate work and served on staff at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin from 1987-2002.

Dianne McAfee Hopkins was awarded the AASL Distinguished Service Award in 1992. She also recieved the SIRS Intellectual Freedom Award in 2001, and has had an award given by the Univirsity of Wisconsin-Madison named in her honor, the Dianne McAfee Hopkins Diversity Award.

Research Themes

-Intellectual Freedom
-Materials and Material Challenges
-SLMS Empowerment

Summary of Contributions

-Dianne McAfee Hopkins has been an advocate for the freedom to read and has encouraged, as stated in her contribution to the fifth edition of the ALA Intellectual Freedom Manual, library Media Specialists to take care and uphold the rights of intellectual freedom in our free society. She has encouraged the SLMS to evolve with the rest of the teaching community and recognize that each child is different as a learner and a human being by bringing a multi-dimentional approach to their role as the SLMS.

-She has also sought to empower the SLMS with material issues by encouraging them to seek out support for the issues in the library













(context: In the figure, Hopkins presents the thinking of a SLMS and the way that thinking along with the gathering of support/lack of support may resolve itself in either the retention, restriction, or removal of materials.)

Important Facts

-Believes strongly in intellectual freedom and the freedom to read
-Advocates the importance of the SLMS in promoting and upholding these freedoms
-Urges collaborative planning between teachers and the SLMS and the utilization of the library and all of it's resources in order to promote proper funding and collection development

Highlighted Bibliography

Hopkins, Dianne McAfee, 1989. “Toward a conceptual model of factors influencing the outcome of challenges to library materials in school settings.” Library and Information Science Research. 11:247–71.

Hopkins, Dianne McAfee. 1993. “A conceptual model of factors influencing the outcome of challenges to library materials in secondary school settings.” Library Quarterly. 63:40–72.

Hopkins, Dianne McAfee. 1996. “Library media challenges: the Wisconsin experience.” Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom. XLV: 1,28,31.

Hopkins, Dianne McAffee. "Toward a Conceptual Path of Support for School Library Media Specialists with Material Challenges." School Library Media Research; 1, 1998.

Hopkins, Dianne McAfee. 1996. "School Library Media Centers and Intellectual Freedom." American Library Association; Intellectual Freedom Manual. Fifth ed. http://www.ala.org.

Zweizig, Douglas & Hopkins, Dianne McAfee with Webb, Norman Lott & Wehlage, Gary (1999). Lessons from Library Power; Enriching Teaching and Learning: An Initiative of the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.

Resources

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslawards/distinguishedser/aasldistinguished.cfm

http://www.proquestk12.com/about/freedom/aasl.shtml

http://archives.library.wisc.edu/oral-history/guide/801-900/811-820.html#hopkins

http://eduscapes.com/sms/overview/hopkins.html

http://www.slis.wisc.edu/academics/awards.html#hopkins

http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/iftoolkits/ifmanual/fifthedition/schoollibrary.cfm

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/volume11998slmqo/mcafee.cfm#review

http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/iftoolkits/ifmanual/intellectual.cfm

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslarchive/aaslbucket/slmr/vol1mcafee.cfm#fig1