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.(ALA)
Some of you may have noticed the book collection featured in the exhibit window of the library. Each of the books on display has been challenged or banned in recent years, and all are available in CUNY collections. If you’re interested in finding out more about Banned Books Week, and the ways that libraries (and others) work to insure that readers have access to all kinds of ideas, you may be interested in some of the following resources.
ALA Library Bill of Rights
ALA Banned Books Week
Brooklyn Public Library Banned Book Reading Lists
NYPL post and reading list.
Huffington Post: The Eleven Most Surprising Banned Books
Banned in the USA, a history of book censorship in the US.
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