Banned Books Week -- September 27 - October 4, 2008

Exercise Your First Amendment Rights – Listen to and Read a Banned Book!

“Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual American Library Association event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2008, marks BBW's 27th anniversary (September 27 through October 4).

Banned Books Week 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.”*

Banned Books Week will be celebrated at Mount Aloysius College on

• Monday, September 29, in the upper lobby of the Cosgrave Center.
• Beginning at 10:00 a.m. and continuing until 7:00 p.m., a selection from a different banned, challenged or censored book will be read every ten minutes by a student, faculty or staff member of the College.

This event may count as a CLS convocation. Students should check with their instructors.

For additional information, contact Dr. Barbara Cook (English & Fine Arts), Dr. Julie Smith (Social Studies) or Shamim Rajpar (Library).

*(Source: American Library Association, Office of Intellectual Freedom)