This week, Sept. 20-27, is Banned Books Week. This year's event has the theme "Open Your Mind to a Banned Book."
Sponsors include the American Booksellers Association, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the American Library Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Association of American Publishers and the National Association of College Stores. It is endorsed by the Center for the Book of the Library of Congress.
Despite the excesses of some zealots, this is a good cause and a good occasion to consider our freedoms -- and what it would mean to lose them.
Please pause for a moment and take this survey (courtesy of a *conservative* librarian)!
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." — Benjamin FranklinPosted by Alan at September 23, 2003 05:05 PM"Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book." — Walt Whitman
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." — Ray Bradbury
"So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life." — Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"
"LIBERTY, n. — One of Imagination's most precious possessions." — Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary
American Library Association - The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2002