{"id":779,"date":"2006-09-21T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2006\/09\/banned-books-week-sept-23-30\/"},"modified":"2006-09-21T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T08:46:00","slug":"banned-books-week-sept-23-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2006\/09\/banned-books-week-sept-23-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week, Sept. 23-30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read<\/b> is observed<br \/>\nduring the last week of September each year. This year it is from Sept.<br \/>\n23 &#8211; 30. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds Americans<br \/>\nnot 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>Between 1990 and 2000, of the 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1,607 were challenges to &#8220;sexually explicit&#8221; material (up 161 since 1999)<\/li>\n<li>1,427 to material considered to use &#8220;offensive language&#8221; (up 165 since 1999)<\/li>\n<li>1,256 to material considered &#8220;unsuited to age group&#8221; (up 89 since 1999)<\/li>\n<li>842 to material with an &#8220;occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism&#8221; (up 69 since 1999)<\/li>\n<li>737 to material considered to be &#8220;violent&#8221; (up 107 since 1999)<\/li>\n<li>515 to material with a homosexual theme or &#8220;promoting homosexuality&#8221; (up 18 since 1999)<\/li>\n<li>419 to material &#8220;promoting a religious viewpoint&#8221; (up 22 since 1999)<\/li>\n<li>317 to material involving &#8220;nudity&#8221; (up 20 since 1999)<\/li>\n<li>267 to material involving &#8220;racism&#8221; (up 22 since 1999)<\/li>\n<li>224 to material involving &#8220;sex education&#8221; (up 7 since 1999)<\/li>\n<li>202 to material considered to be &#8220;anti-family&#8221; (up 9 since 1999)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Links<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><a HREF=\"\/library\/bannedproc.html\">Proclamation from the Butler Libraries<\/a><br \/><a HREF=\"\/library\/bannedquotes.html\">Quotes relating to Banned Books Week<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/challengedbanned\/challengedbanned.htm\">Challenged and Banned Books<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/challengedbanned\/challengedbanned.htm#mfcb\">The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2005<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/bbwlinks\/100mostfrequently.htm\">The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/challengedbanned\/challengedbanned.htm#wdcb\">What&#8217;s the Difference Between Challenged and Banned?<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/googlebooks\/banned\/\">Google Book Search&#8217;s Banned Books Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/bannedbooksweek.htm\">American Library Association (ALA)&#8217;s Banned Books Week page<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abffe.org\/\">American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression<\/a><\/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. 23 &#8211; 30. 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 the [&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-779","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\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}