Banned Book Week
Curriculum Materials Library celebrates freedom to read
October 1, 2008
Story by Maggie Kierl, OSU Library Communications Intern
For Immediate Release
STILLWATER -The OSU Curriculum Materials Library is recognizing Banned Book Week, Sept. 27-Oct. 4, and celebrating the freedom to read. Banned Books Week highlights books that have been banned or challenged based on political, religious, sexual or social grounds.
The CML built a Banned Book Week display, featuring examples of banned books and background on Banned Book Week. Featured books include: “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”; “The Chocolate War”; and “I Know Why Caged Birds Sing”.
The display continues inside the CML. Banned books from the CML’s collection are available on tables throughout and have “Danger” taped around them. The CML also has various informative and decorative posters on display about Banned Book Week.
Banned Book Week celebrates the right to express one’s opinions or viewpoints, according to the American Library Association website. It also celebrates Americans’ rights to read those opinions and viewpoints; it is our intellectual freedom.
For more information about Banned Book Week and a list of frequently challenged books, visit www.ala.org.Oklahoma State University is a modern land-grant system that cuts across disciplines to better prepare students for a new world. Oklahoma's only university with a statewide presence, OSU improves the lives of people in Oklahoma, the nation, and the world through integrated, high-quality teaching, research and outreach. OSU has more than 32,000 students across its five-campus system and nearly 21,000 on its Stillwater campus; with students from all 50 states and about 110 nations. Established in 1890, OSU has graduated more than 200,000 students who have made a lasting impact on Oklahoma and the world. CREATE - INNOVATE - EDUCATE - GO STATE!
URL: http://www.library.okstate.edu/news/fall08/bannedbooks.htm
Last Updated: 1 October 2008
