Category: read-out
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Celebrate Banned Books Week
Every year books are banned and challenged in schools, libraries, and bookstores across the country and around the globe. Most of these bans and challenges go unreported. Like many other libraries, we participate in Banned Books Week to celebrate the freedom to read and to raise awareness of censorship.This year we decided to celebrate in some new…
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Banned Books Week Read Out!
Join the American Library Association as they celebrate Banned Books Week by sponsoring a Read-Out on Saturday, September 25, 2010, from noon to 2:00 PM, in historic Bughouse Square (Washington Square Park), 901 N. Clark St., Chicago. The Read-Out is an annual event to bring attention to books that have been banned and challenged in…
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ALA Banned Books Read-Out on Saturday, 9/26 noon-3pm
The Office for Intellectual Freedom would like to cordially invite you and your families to attend the annual Banned Books Read-Out! this Saturday afternoon, September 26th, 2009. The event will be held at Bughouse Square, just up the street from ALA headquarters at the corner of Walton Street and Dearborn Street in Chicago. It begins…