Resources

  Home page, 2010 Banned Books week
 * American Library Association Links and Resources **

Home page, Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF)

Home page, OIF blog

Home page, Intellectual Freedom documents and guidelines

Knowledge Quest (November/December 2007). Intellectual Freedom is the subject of the entire issue. Use the link to access all stories in the issue.

Home page, bannedbooksweek.org
 * ALA Partners/Collaborators for Banned Books Week **

American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression Free handbook available online; focus is for retail booksellers, but the ideas and displays can be adapted for school library use


 * Banned Books Week Ideas and Other Resources **

From ALA, includes links to: · Free, downloadable graphics · Ideas for displays and promotional activities · Public service announcement (PSA) scripts · Sample letter to the editor/opinion piece · Banned Books Week Proclamation

First Amendment Schools This site is geared toward educators and students. It's run by the First Amendment Center, whose site includes lesson plans. The First Amendment Center is a program of the Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan group that focuses on citizens’ rights as a foundation of democracy.

Haynes, C. C., Chaltain, S., Ferguson, J. E., Jr., Hudson, D. L., Jr., & Thomas, O. (2003). //The First Amendment in Schools: A Guide from the First Amendment Center.// Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum. Consider adding this book to your professional development collection. Include case law samples and explanations.

National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) Scroll to the bottom of the home page and click on icons to learn more about NCAC's free expression projects.

NCAC’s Voices Against Book Censorship For multiple videos and interview transcripts featuring authors who have faced censorship. Authors include Toni Morrison, John Green, Lauren Myracle, Julia Alvarez, Francesca Lia Block, and Chris Crutcher.

Stripling, Barbara. (n.d.) Minors’ Rights in School Library Media Centers: The Chilling Cycle of Censorship in Public School Libraries This was a handout at an AASL conference session. See pp. 1-2.

Free library media & PR graphics

“Read Banned Books!” is a printable list of literary censorship through the ages. It's not in date order, but dates and challenge reasons are given, and it shows cover images. Source: New Mexico State University Library (2009)

 Sarah Scholl, Banned Books Week Lesson PPT (Grades 5-8 Lesson Plan) 
 * Sample Lesson Plans **

Beth O'Connor, Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues (Grade 9-12 lesson plan) from ReadWriteThink

Lisa Storm Fink, A Case for Reading—Examining Challenged and Banned Books (Grade 3-5 lesson plan) from ReadWriteThink

Tressy Hart, Discrimination in Banned Books (Grades 6-8 lesson plan from Teaching Tolerance, a Project of the Southern Law Poverty Center)


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Family Friendly Libraries According to its home page, Family Friendly Libraries was formed “in response to a proliferation of internet pornography and age-inappropriate materials in local school and public libraries.”

Muncy, M. "Finding Censorship Where There is None," //Wall Street Journal//, September 25, 2009. In an opinion piece, the author suggests that Banned Books Week is itself possibly a type of censorship for its “attempt at prior restraint on speech by the government” because libraries receive public funding.

Parents Against Bad Books in School - Learn more about what proponents of censorship say. Read some of the reasons that people have chosen to ban books and what their opinion is regarding banned books.