Knowledge: book banning
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- What Johnny Can't Read: Censorship in American Libraries
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter96/pubCONN.html - Essay by Suzanne Fisher Staples on censorship in American school libraries.
- Banned Books On-Line
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html - Special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts.
- The File Room
http://www.thefileroom.org/ - Archive of case files pertaining to the censorship and suppression of works and ideas from Socrates to Judy Blume.
- Censored
http://www.georgesuttle.com/censorship/ - Directory of Web and print censorship resources with detailed descriptions of each link.
- Censored: Wielding the Red Pen
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/censored/index.html - This exhibition from the University of Virginia Libraries includes numerous cover images of censored books, plus thoughtful and informative commentary.
- American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
http://www.abffe.org/ - News and updates on matters of free speech, book banning and related issues for booksellers.
- Banning Books from the Classroom: How To Handle Cries for Censorship
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr031.shtml - This informative article from education World is mainly aimed at teachers, but it is useful for anyone concerned with book banning and censorship in schools. Challenges to school materials are a common occurrence. How should such challenges be handled? How can they be avoided?
- Censorship Pages
http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/index.htm - Anti-censorship site with a look at banned books.
- Free Expression Network
http://www.freeexpression.org/ - Current news, features and trend analysis in free expression issues in U.S.
- Autodafe.org
http://www.autodafe.org/ - Autodafe.org provides writings of authors giving their perspectives of the social or political situations, analyses and thoughts on literary creativity, and the examples of censoring currently practiced in the world.
- Censorship and Book Burning
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/burning/burning.html - Modest collection of sayings and viewpoints of book burning.
- Banned Books: A Pathfinder
http://www.albany.edu/~mr3240/isp605 - An librarians' finding guide for information on banned books and censorship.
- Shameful Book Banning in Rockford, Illinois
http://users.rcn.com/kyp/rockbann.html - Describes a case where a school board voted to ban a book about youth gang culture, to the dismay of many in the community.
- Alibris - Banned Books
http://www.alibris.com/articles_features/features/banned/banned.cfm - Alibris' section of books that have been banned, challenged, or expurgated, and the often humorous reasons why.
- Parents Against Bad Books In Schools
http://www.pabbis.com/ - Information and resources for challenging controversial books in K-12 schools.
- Freedom to Read.ca
http://www.freedomtoread.ca/ - Freedom to Read Week encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom.
- United Students Against Book Banning
http://www.angelfire.com/vt2/UnitedStudents/ - A collective of Canadian students fighting censorship.
- kidSPEAK
http://www.kidspeakonline.org/ - Formerly Muggles for Harry Potter, kidSPEAK believes that it is wrong to ban books in classrooms and school libraries because some parents object to their content. Restricting the use of books that kids want to read violates their First Amendment rights and helps produce an illiterate society.
- Free Expression Policy Project
http://www.fepproject.org/index.html - A think tank on artistic and intellectual freedom that provides empirical research and policy development on tough censorship issues.
- ALA: Banned Books Week
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm - Information and resources on this year's Banned Books Week, from the American Library Association. Includes an overview of the topic of banned and burned books, press kits, a list of the most frequently challenged books, and links.
- ALA's Top 100 Banned or Challenged Books of 1990-2000
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm - A list of the most frequently challenged books of the 1990s, based on the challenges reported to ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom.
- Banned Books: the Virtual Display
http://libraries.luc.edu/about/exhibits/banned/index.shtml - Loyola University Chicago Libraries' information page about book banning in the U.S. and abroad, with a section on electronic documents.
- Most Frequently Challenged Books in the US in the early 1990s
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/most-banned.html - A list of the 50 most frequently challenged titles in schools and public libraries between 1990 and 1992, based on Herbert Foerstel's book, Banned in the U.S.A.
- Look Out, Harry Potter: Book Banning Heats Up
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin157.shtml - This article from Education World explores the issue of book banning with a special focus on the Rowling's Harry Potter books, and includes a set of resources for establishing procedures in school systems to handle challenges to popular books.
- Banned Books Quiz
http://reference.aol.com/quizzes/banned-books - Test your knowledge of banned books with this quiz.
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