Banned Books Week 2008 at the University of St Thomas Libraries

Celebrate your freedom to read September 27 - October 4

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The UST libraries are joining hundreds of libraries, bookstores and publishers to commemorate the 27th anniversary of Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of our constitutionally protected right to access books and other media without censorhsip

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Did you every 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

"Don't join the book burners.  Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they never existed."   -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Famous trials over classic but controversial texts like Ulysses or Lady Chatterley's Lover lull people into the belief that attempts to restrict materials are a thing of the past when in fact many contemporary works such as books in the Harry Potter series, Fight Club and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings have been challenged in various communities. 

While not every book is intended for every reader, each of us has the right to dicide for ourselves what to read, listen to, or view. 

"Banned Books Week is a way to raise awareness about censorship" says Judith Krug, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association, "and remind Americans that our freedoms can be fragile if we are not vigilant in protecting them.