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2007 Banned Books Week Resource Guide

Celebrate Your Freedom to Read September 29–October 6, 2007

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2007 BBW Resource Guide

BBW Resource Guide

Books Challenged or Banned (aka "The Short List") is a bibliography of books challenged, restricted, removed, or banned each year as reported in the Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom from, for example May 2006 to May 2007.  It supplements the Banned Books Resource Guide between editions.  The most recent Guide was published in 2007. The next one is scheduled for 2010.

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“Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.”—Library Bill of Rights

“We uphold the principles of intellectual freedom and resist all efforts to censor library resources.”—ALA Code of Ethics

 
 
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, the annual event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.

Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.

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“Banned Books Week 2007 is the twenty-sixth annual celebration of the freedom to read. This freedom, not only to choose what we read but also to select from a full array of possibilities, is firmly rooted in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of press. Although we enjoy an increasing quantity and availability of information and reading material, we must remain vigilant to assure that access to this material is preserved; would-be censors continue to threaten the freedom to read and come from all quarters and all political persuasions. Even if their motivations for their restrictions are well intentioned, censors try to limit the freedom of others to choose what they read, see, or hear.”—2007 Resource Guide