Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read<\/b> is
\nobserved during the last week of September each year. This year it is
\nfrom Sept. 27 – Oct. 4. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds
\nAmericans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.<\/p>\n
Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the
\nfreedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be
\nconsidered unorthodox or unpopular. It stresses the importance of
\nensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints
\nto all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist
\nonly where these two essential conditions are met.<\/p>\n
Between 1990 and 2000, of the 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom: <\/p>\n
Links Proclamation from the Butler Libraries<\/a> The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000<\/a><\/p>\n Google Book Search’s Banned Books Page<\/a> Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. This year it is from Sept. 27 – Oct. 4. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[274804],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/b><\/p>\n
Quotes relating to Banned Books Week<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nBanned Books Week 2008<\/a>
\nBanned Books Week Video: I’d Like to Find *BLEEP*<\/a>
\nWhy Banned Books Week?<\/a>
\nThe Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2007<\/a><\/p>\n
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression<\/a><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"