Another Banned Books Week has come and gone. Organized by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), Banned Books Week was September 23-29. The event began in 1982 after “banned books were showcased at the 1982 American Booksellers Association (ABA) BookExpo America trade show in Anaheim, California.” Attendees to the convention were greeted with “large, padlocked metal cages” near the entrance “with some 500 challenged books stacked inside and a large overhead sign cautioning that some people considered these books dangerous.” The initiative took off after “major news outlets such as PBS and the New York Times covered … Continue reading Public Libraries Worry About Book Banning