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Celebrate Banned Books Week with Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies

September 20th, 2024

Banned Books Week is this week!

This is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. It spotlights attempts to censor books in libraries and schools and brings together the entire book community—librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types—in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas.

Celebrate with us next week by attending these community and campus-wide events:

Banned Books Buffet on Wednesday, September 25, 10:00 AM–5:00 PM in the STEW lobby. Stop by to explore Purdue Libraries’ diverse collection of challenged and banned books, take a selfie with your favorite banned book, and have the chance to win Libraries swag.

Community workshop on Thursday, September 26, 11:00 AM at the West Lafayette Public Library. Join Shannon Oltmann, associate professor in the School of Information Science at The University of Kentucky, as she discusses the basic elements of intellectual freedom, with emphasis on how to implement it into public and school libraries. This workshop is great for school, public, or academic librarians, any library workers, and community members; register now at https://hubs.la/Q02PTvr10

Campus seminar on Thursday, September 26, 4:00 PM in STEW 202. Join us for a Banned Books seminar with Shannon Oltmann. Shannon will be discussing topics such as intellectual freedom, widespread issues of censorship, and ways to overcome censorship in society.