{"id":1354,"date":"2009-09-25T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2009\/09\/banned-books-week-begins-sept-26\/"},"modified":"2009-09-25T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T10:34:00","slug":"banned-books-week-begins-sept-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2009\/09\/banned-books-week-begins-sept-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week begins Sept. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ala.org\/ala\/issuesadvocacy\/banned\/bannedbooksweek\/ideasandresources\/free_downloads\/bbwbadge_lg.jpg\" align=\"right\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read<\/b> is<br \/>\nobserved during the last week of September each year. This year it is<br \/>\nfrom Sept. 26 &#8211; Oct. 3. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds<br \/>\nAmericans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.<\/p>\n<p>Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the<br \/>\nfreedom to express one&#8217;s opinion even if that opinion might be<br \/>\nconsidered unorthodox or unpopular. It stresses the importance of<br \/>\nensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints<br \/>\nto all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist<br \/>\nonly where these two essential conditions are met.<\/p>\n<p>From 2001 to 2008, of the 3,736 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1,225 challenges due to \u201csexually explicit\u201d material;\n<\/li>\n<li>1,008 challenges due to \u201coffensive language\u201d;\n<\/li>\n<li>720 challenges due to material deemed \u201cunsuited to age group\u201d;\n<\/li>\n<li>458 challenges due to \u201cviolence\u201d\n<\/li>\n<li>269 challenges due to \u201chomosexuality\u201d; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further, 103 materials were challenged because they were<br \/>\n\u201canti-family,\u201d and an additional 233 were challenged because of their<br \/>\n\u201creligious viewpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1,176 of these challenges (approximately 31%) were in classrooms;<br \/>\n37% were in school libraries; 24% (or 909) took place in public<br \/>\nlibraries.&nbsp; There were less than 75 challenges to college classes; and<br \/>\nonly 36 to academic libraries.&nbsp; There are isolated cases of challenges<br \/>\nto materials made available in or by prisons, special libraries,<br \/>\ncommunity groups, and student groups.&nbsp; The majority of challenges were<br \/>\ninitiated by parents (almost exactly 51%), while patrons and<br \/>\nadministrators followed behind (10% and 8% respectively).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><b>Links<br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.ala.org\/ala\/aboutala\/offices\/oif\/archive\/bannedbooksweek73008archive.cfm\">Banned Books Week 2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/issuesadvocacy\/banned\/aboutbannedbooks\/index.cfm\">About Banned &amp; Challenged Books<\/a> (and the difference between them)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alfocus.ala.org\/videos\/banned-books-week-id-find-bleep\">Banned Books Week Video: I&#8217;d Like to Find *BLEEP*<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.ala.org\/ala\/aboutala\/offices\/oif\/archive\/backgroundarchive.cfm#wbbw\">Why Banned Books Week?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.ala.org\/ala\/newspresscenter\/news\/pressreleases2008\/may2008\/penguin.cfm\">The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2008<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/issuesadvocacy\/banned\/frequentlychallenged\/challengedbydecade\/1990_1999\/index.cfm\">The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of the 1990s<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bannedbooksweek.org\/Mapofbookcensorship.html\">Google Map of Banned Book Sites<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/googlebooks\/banned\/\">Google Book Search&#8217;s Banned Books Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abffe.org\/\">American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. This year it is from Sept. 26 &#8211; Oct. 3. 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 [&hellip;]<\/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-1354","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\/1354","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=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}