Banned Books Week On The Web
- American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression ABFFE helps booksellers promote their Banned Books Week activities. Last year, it joined the American Library Association (ALA) in launching the first Web site dedicated to the event, www.bannedbooksweek.org.
- American Library Association Banned Books Week Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.
- Amnesty International Banned Books Week During Banned Books Week, Amnesty International directs attention to the plight of individuals who are persecuted because of the writings that they produce, circulate or read. Traditionally, Banned Books Week activities take place at the end of September -- but the featured cases are not confined to a week. They continue to need your action.
- Banned Books Week The purpose of this Web site is to help the public join the celebration of our freedom to read.
- Bonfire of the Liberties Presented by the Texas Council for the Humanities Resource Center, this online exhibit includes an essay by Frances Leonard entitled Bonfire of the Liberties, a list of banned books, and images related to the topic of intellectual freedom.
- Comic Book Legal Defense Fund The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community.
- Rhode Island ACLU 50th Anniversary Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to learn and express one’s opinion without censorship. The RI ACLU commemorated Banned Books week with a poster sent to libraries across Rhode Island for use in public education about First Amendment rights.
- Rhode Island Library Association RILA is a professional association of Librarians, Library Staff, Trustees and library supporters whose purpose is to promote the profession of librarianship and to improve the visibility, accessibility, responsiveness and effectiveness of library and information services throughout Rhode Island. Carla Weiss is the chair of RILA's Intellectual Freedom Committee, and can be contacted via email at cweiss@ric.edu
- School Library Journal The recent book-banning controversy over Tintin au Congo (Little, Brown, 2005) at New York’s Brooklyn Public Library is yet another reminder of the importance of Banned Books Week, an event in which thousands nationwide will read from banned or challenged books, speak out and learn about censorship, and celebrate the right to choose reading materials without restriction.
- University of Pennsylvania's online banned books page Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood, have been selected from the indexes of The Online Books Page.
Banned Books Week
First observed in 1982, Banned Books Week reminds Americans not to take their democratic freedom to read for granted. The event is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the American Library Association, the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Association of College Stores. It is endorsed by the Library of Congress Center for the Book.
Banned Books Week 2009
Top ten most frequently challenged books of 2008
Out of 513 challenges as reported to the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom.
- And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Reasons: anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group - His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman
Reasons: political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, and violence - TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series), by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group - Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
Reasons: occult/satanism, religious viewpoint, and violence - Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
Reasons: occult/satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, and violence - The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: drugs, homosexuality, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, suicide, and unsuited to age group - Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar
Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group - Uncle Bobby's Wedding, by Sarah S. Brannen
Reasons: homosexuality and unsuited to age group - The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group - Flashcards of My Life, by Charise Mericle Harper
Reasons: sexually explicit and unsuited to age group
Description
Loading content... please wait
 |
Loading content... please wait