Banned Books Week
"Banned Books Week - Celebrating the Freedom to Read," an annual celebration of the freedom to read, is observed the last week of September. Each year, librarians, booksellers, teachers and countless others take this opportunity to highlight the importance of intellectual freedom and remind us not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.
Banned Books Week 2009 will be held September 26–October 3, 2009.
Banned Books Week information is available at the shortcut web address: http://www.ala.org/bbooks
The event is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the American Library Association, the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National Association of College Stores. It is endorsed by the Library of Congress Center for the Book. The Banned Books Week site provides information on events celebrating our freedom to read.
Many teachers and school librarians use the week as a focal point for having students research why a book is banned.