Banned Books Week

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Banned Books Week - Celebrating the Freedom to Read, an annual celebration of the freedom to read, launched in 1982, is observed the last week of September. Each year, librarians, booksellers, teachers and countless others take this opportunity to highlight the importance of intellectual freedom and remind us not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.

Banned Books Week is currently sponsored by the American Booksellers Association; the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; the American Library Association; the American Society of Journalists and Authors; the Association of American Publishers; the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund; the Freedom to Read Foundation; the National Coalition Against Censorship; the National Council of Teachers of English; the National Association of College Stores; and the PEN American Center. It is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and Project Censored. The joint Banned Books Week website provides information on events celebrating our freedom to read.


Many teachers and school librarians use the week as a focal point for having students research why a book is banned.


Next occurrence: September 30 − October 6, 2012

Banned Books Week


List of Banned Books Week Honorary Chairpersons


History of Banned Books Week
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