Banned Books Week

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Clement C. Maxwell Library Educational Resource Center's Guide to Banned and Challenged Books

"If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job."
--John Berry

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
--Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky

"If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas."
--Graceanne A. Decandido

"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
--Benjamin Franklin

"Did you ever hear anyone say 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?"
--Joseph Henry Jackson

"The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself."
--Granville Hicks

"Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second."
--Phil Kerby

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More Information on Banned Books and Censorship Can Be found on the following websites

The American Library Association

People for the American Way

The Freedom to Read Foundation

The National Coalition Against Censorship

Banned Books Online

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression

American Bookseller's Association

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To Read More About Censorship look at these resources from Maxwell Library

Censorship. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, c1997.
Reference Collection Z658.U5 C38

Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Chicago: Fitzroy, Dearborn Publishers, c2001.
Reference Collection Z657 C393

Foerstel, Herbert. Banned in the USA: A Reference Guide to Book
Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press. 2002.
General Collection Z658 U5 F64 2002

Green, Jonathon. The Encyclopedia of Censorship. New York: Facts on
File, 2005.
Reference Collection Z657.G73 2005

Knuth, Rebecca. Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books
and Libraries in the Twentieth Century. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers. 2003
General Collection Z659 K58 2003

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Page updated on September 24, 2008

Banned Books Week

September 27 - October 4, 2008
Celebrating the freedom to read for 27 years

"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."