While Halloween decorations go up of spooky skeletons and evil ghosts, there is nothing scarier to a librarian than banned books.
There are two weeks in October dedicated to raising awareness about censorship and book banning in the United States. Banned Books Week (October 5th – 11th) has been organized since 1982 in support of free speech and the right to information access. More recently, advocates also began organizing Prison Banned Books Week (October 19th – 25th) to shed light on censorship in prisons. Keep reading to learn more fun (scary) facts about the current state of book bans, and to learn what banned books you can pick up at Cannell Library.
