Banned Books Week 2024

Friday

Thursday

Authors, Librarians, & Students on Book Banning

Wednesday

Tuesday

Banned Books Week Intro

Monday

BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2024

Activities brought to you by the Lanphier High School Library & the American Library Association

Youth Censorship Database

-Top 10 Banned Books of 2023

-Censorship by the Numbers Data Analysis

Alexi Giannoulis on new Illinois anti-book banning law

Share your thoughts here!

After completing each of the activities on Banned Books Week, you can now form an educated opinion on censorship and book banning. Click the link above to share your response with Mrs. Corcoran. You will receive a sticker and sweet treat for answering here!

why do we celebrate banned books week?

Book Banning in the news

CENSORSHIP & THE 1ST AMENDMENT

BANNED

BANNED VS CHALLENGED

And other important tidbits about Banned Books Week -- Click each card to learn more!

American Library Association policy on CENSORSHIP

challenged

Back to Home

Use the link below to explore the National Coalition Against Censorship database on banned and challenged books around the country. Search for a book you've read or are curious about to see if it has been banned/challenged anywhere near you.

YOUTH CENSORSHIP DATABASE

Youth Censorship Database

#1 - TO PROMOTE AWARENESS OF THE DANGERS OF CENSORSHIP#2 - TO CELEBRATE OUR FREEDOM TO READ#3 - DIVERSE BOOKS UNITE US RATHER THAN DIVIDE US

Click the play button to see a quick video explainer of these three reasons!

The actual removal of challenged materials from library shelves, school curriculum, or other institutions

Banned Book

1. MSNBC interviews actor & author LaVar Burton (6:38)

Choose a video to watch on book banning, then answer the question for the day.

2. Author John Green on his religion and how it pertains to book bans (3:55)

3. Middle School librarian Amanda Jones on how book bans have impacted her life (6:00)

4. Student activists overturn book ban in PA (3:00)

CENSORSHIP - the supression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc that are considered objectionable by a person or group

Censorship & the 1st Amendment

1ST AMENDMENT- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

So what does this have to do with banning books and libraries?

Because libraries (public and school) are funded through tax payer dollars, they serve everyone, therefore everyone deserves to see themselves reflected in the collection of a public/school library. Because the 1st Amendment guarantees your freedom to access information, a public institution like a public/school library cannot censor materials that community members disagree with. You deserve access to those books. Age approrpiateness should be considered when decided if a library should hold certain titles and were they should be shelved.

An attempt to remove or restrict materials from a library based upon the objections of a person or group within a certain community

Challenged Book