Banned Books Week 2010

Banned Books Week is September 25 through October 2, 2010.

As Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., in Texas v. Johnson, said most eloquently: "If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable."

from the American Library Association web page " About Banned and Challenged Books "

Imagine a world where access to information is restricted.

Imagine a world where books, such as Huckleberry Finn, are banned.

Your BSC Library has copies of Huckleberry Finn and other challenged and banned books. And you can get the books we don't have through Interlibrary Loan.

For information on banned and challenged books go to

http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/aboutbannedbooks/index.cfm