Banned Books Week marks 25th anniversary September 23-30

This is one of the most appropriate ways we can celebrate “Constitution Day” and the First Amendment:

From the web site of the American Library Association:
http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/presscentera/piopresskits/bannedbooksweek2006/bbwpk06.htm

More than a book a day faces expulsion from free and open public access in U.S. schools and libraries every year. There have been more than 8,700 attempts since the American Library Association (ALA) began electronically compiling and publishing information on book challenges in 1990.

Twenty-five years after the first observance of Banned Books Week, more than 1,000 people stayed past 1 a.m. debating a request to remove nine books - including "The Things They Carried" by Tim O’Brien and "Beloved" by Toni Morrison - from a Chicagoland school district. The books were ultimately retained.

For a list of banned books, go to: http://banned-books.com/bblista-i.html