The Adult Reference Staff has put up a display of many Banned Books on the 1st floor of the Library. The display includes many books that will surprise you, since they seem so "mainstream" to us today-- The Great Gatsby, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, Go Tell it on the Mountain, and The Sun Also Rises, to name a few. It ends up looking more like a required school reading list than a compilation of challenged books! Come to Perrot and check out a Banned Book to read this week!
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Banned Books in the Adult Department
The Adult Reference Staff has put up a display of many Banned Books on the 1st floor of the Library. The display includes many books that will surprise you, since they seem so "mainstream" to us today-- The Great Gatsby, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, Go Tell it on the Mountain, and The Sun Also Rises, to name a few. It ends up looking more like a required school reading list than a compilation of challenged books! Come to Perrot and check out a Banned Book to read this week!
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Why are these books banned?
The books mentioned in the post were either challenged by the public or banned outright from a school or library because of their "objectionable" content. [A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.]
If you are interested in finding out why a specific book was challenged or banned, check out this list at DeleteCensorship.org.
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