30th Annual Banned Books Week Underway: Resources and Videos
Here’s a selection of reference resources from the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom, AAP, and others.
Official Web Site: BannedBooksWeek.org
+ Resource Links
+ Banned and Challenged Comics
From ALA
+ 30th Anniversary Timeline (Tracing the History of Banned Books Week)
+ Top 10 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011
+ Most frequently challenged authors of the 21st century
+ The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990 to 1999
+ Most frequently challenged authors of color
+ Charts: Number of Challenges by Year, Reason, Initiator & Institution (1990 – 2010)
+ Banned and/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century
+ Notable First Amendment Court Cases
+ (New) 50 State Salute Videos
+ Banned Books Week YouTube Channel
From American Association for School Libraries
Banned Websites Awareness Day (October 3rd)
From Association of American Publishers
+ Banned Books Week-Resources from Publishers
From the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
From the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
+ Banned Books Week Overview and Links
From ACLU of Texas
+ 16th Annual Banned Books Report (PDF)
Older editions of the report available here.
Filed under: Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Publishing, School Libraries, Video Recordings
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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