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Banned Books Week 2024

September 22-28, 2024

MORE WAYS TO GET INVOLVED

Banned Books Week at The New York Public Library
NYPL's calendar of in person and online events, plus more information about how to take action against book bans.
Banned Books Week Event Calendar (ALA)
Events to mark Banned Books Week are taking place around the country! Check ALA's calendar to see what's near you.

HOW TO READ BANNED BOOKS

Interlibrary Loan Request

If the Library does not carry a book you'd like to read in our collections, the Interlibrary Loan department can try to get it brought to the Library for you. Find a book in the catalog and click the request button, or go through the Interlibrary Loan Portal.

Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Services (SCW Library)
Information about the Library's Interlibrary Loan services and the button into the Portal to make a new request.

Public Libraries

Physical and digital access to books and ebooks.

Hoboken Public Library
Get a Hoboken Public Library card and know you're safe to read all of these books in the Book Sanctuary City!
Banned Books at the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, incorporating lists of banned and challenged books from the American Library Association, provides digital access to more than 4,500 titles for short-term or local library loan.

Digital Library Cards for Young Adults

Young adults who live anywhere in the U.S. can sign up for library cards from these public libraries.

Books Unbanned: Seattle Public Library Cards
Seattle Public Library offers a free online library card for anyone living in the US ages 13-26 to explore their collections of banned/challenged books.
Books Unbanned: Brooklyn Public Library
The first public library to adopt the Books Unbanned initiative, Brooklyn Public Library offers a free online library card to anyone in the US ages 13-21 to expand access to banned/challenged books.

Book Clubs

Join one or start your own!

Books Unbanned Book Clubs (African American Policy Forum (AAPF)
The Freedom Readers Book Clubs are "intended to educate, enlighten, and empower all ages to engage in reading and critical thinking about invaluable pieces of literature and contemporary issues."
The Banned Book Club (Digital Public Library of America)
The DPLA provides a tool that shows what books have been banned in your area and then gives you the means to borrow that book from their holdings.

Book Lists

More information about which books have been challenged and why.

The Banned Books Project (Carnegie Mellon University)
"In honor of the American Library Association’s annual Banned Books Week, each student in CMU English’s Banned Books course has selected a banned and/or challenged book to profile. These profiles provide readers with information about the books, their authors, and their histories of controversy and censorship."
Most Banned & Challenged Books Lists Archive (ALA OIF)
Full lists from 2001; summaries of reports from 1990, when the OIF began tracking, until 2000.

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We Read Banned Books

Banned Books Week 2024

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HOW TO READ BANNED BOOKS

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