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Celebrating Banned Books Week and our Freedom to READ! Sept. 30 – Oct. 6th

Celebrating Banned Books Week and our Freedom to READ! Sept. 30 – Oct. 6th. Freedom to Read. Banned Books Week stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them. Intellectual Freedom

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Celebrating Banned Books Week and our Freedom to READ! Sept. 30 – Oct. 6th

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  1. Celebrating Banned Books Weekand our Freedom to READ!Sept. 30 – Oct. 6th

  2. Freedom to Read • Banned Books Week • stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them. • Intellectual Freedom • is the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular. 

  3. Do you recognize any of these books? Have you read them? How would you feel if they were removed from this library?

  4. These are some of the books that have been…. • Banned • To forbid especially by law. • Censored • An official who checks materials (such as books) to take out things thought to be objectionable(people might disapprove of). AND/OR • Challenged • The removal of books from library shelves have been requested.

  5. OIF Censorship Database2000-2005Challenges by the Year

  6. Some of the reasons from 2001-2009

  7. OIF Censorship Database2000-2005Challenges by Institution

  8. OIF Censorship Database2000-2005Initiator of Challenge

  9. Some silly reasons for the following books….. • This book was challenged at the Cunningham Elementary School in Wisconsin (1985) because the book “encourages children to break dishes so they won’t have to dry them”.

  10. Removed from a school in Conn. (2000) due to concerns that it caused disruptive behavior among children.

  11. Removed from the 5th grade classroom from a school in Pulaski Twp, Pa. due to an elaborate fantasy world they felt might lead to confusion.

  12. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling • They promote witchcraft, set bad examples and are too dark.

  13. What could some of the reasons be for challenging this series? • Your thoughts

  14. What Law gives us the right to freedom of speech, freedom to write what we want to, freedom to read what we want? • The Constitution of the United States. • 1st 10 Amendments … Bill of Rights

  15. Celebrate Your Freedom to Read!

  16. Bibliography • ALA.org. http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/index.cfm • 22 Sept 2010. • Follett Library Resources. http://www.titlewave.com. • 22 Sept 2010.

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