Banned Book Week–September 26-October 3, 2009

  Dan Kleinman

No books have been banned in the USA for about a half a century. See “National Hogwash Week.”

Also see “US Libraries Hit Back Over Challenges to Kids Books,” by Sara Hussein, Agence France-Presse [AFP], 6 September 2009.

  glendaann

You’re right about banning. Sort of. Unfortunately, there are still books being banned in America on a small scale. We are trying to focus on Intellectual Freedom and the right to read any materials one wishes. Although books are not, as you mention, banned on a grand scale by our government or from bookstores, books are still being banned from individual libraries on a regular basis. For more information on this, refer here : http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14982752&ps=rs. In the meantime, it is the hope of librarians across America, ourselves included, that students retain their right to read freely. We hope you will join us in this task. Thanks for your comment.