{"id":8767,"date":"2023-09-13T01:32:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T01:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/?p=8767"},"modified":"2023-09-13T00:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T00:06:35","slug":"bbw-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/bbw-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Save the Date!<\/h4>\n<p>Following the tradition established by the American Library Association (ALA) to observe Banned Books Week in each fall, we will dedicate a few posts to challenged and banned books this year too. Our goal is to join &#8220;the entire book community \u2014 librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers \u2014 in shared support of the freedom to seek and express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular,&#8221; as suggested by ALA. Stay tuned!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\/top10\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8768\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2023\/09\/IMG_3921-1-300x112.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2023\/09\/IMG_3921-1-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2023\/09\/IMG_3921-1-1024x381.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2023\/09\/IMG_3921-1-768x286.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2023\/09\/IMG_3921-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Resources<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.rutgers.edu\/bannedbooks\/About\">Guide to Banned Books<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0Curated by New Brunswick librarians, this LibGuide provides an overview of challenging books and a brief summary of events at Rutgers-New Brunswick.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Selected posts from previous \u00a0years<\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8773\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8773\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2023\/09\/IMG_1188-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Display case\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2023\/09\/IMG_1188-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2023\/09\/IMG_1188-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2023\/09\/IMG_1188-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2023\/09\/IMG_1188-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2023\/09\/IMG_1188-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Banned books display in Chang Library (2023)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/introduction-to-banned-books-week-2020\/\">Introduction to Banned Books<\/a> (Nicholas Allred)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/banned-books-week-2020-what-is-a-zine\/\">What is a Zine<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/banned-books-week-2020-what-is-a-zine\/\">?<\/a> (Megan Lotts)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/banned-books-week-2020-what-is-samizdat\/\">What is Samizdat?<\/a>\u00a0(Judit H. Ward)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/banned-books-week-2020-banned-no-more\/\">Banned No More <\/a>(Nancy Kranich)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/banned-books-week-2020-banned-bestsellers\/\">Banned Bestsellers<\/a> (Julie Rossano)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/big-ben\/\">Big Ben Lying Down with Banned Books<\/a>\u00a0(Judit H. Ward)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/banned-books-as-a-parenting-tool-lessons-from-the-giver\/\">Banned Books as a Parenting Tool<\/a>\u00a0(Becky Diamond)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/banned-books-hungary\/\">New Hungarian Law Challenges Librarians<\/a>\u00a0(Judit H. Ward)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/the-banned-books-of-rutgers-special-collections-and-university-archives\/\">The Banned Books of Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives<\/a>\u00a0(Tara Maharjan)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/library-book\/\">The Library Book<\/a> (Becky Diamond)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/intellectual-freedom\/\">Intellectual Freedom Stories from a Shifting Landscape<\/a> (Judit H. Ward\/Megan Lotts)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/slaughterhouse-five-recreational-reading-to-research-paper\/\">Slaughterhouse Five: Recreational Reading to Research Paper<\/a> (Lindsey Jones)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/judy-blume\/\">The Judy Blume Rest Area: A Lesson in Free Speech and Democracy<\/a> (Judit H. Ward)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/banned-challenged\/\">Banned or Challenged<\/a> (Judit H. Ward)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save the Date! Following the tradition established by the American Library Association (ALA) to observe Banned Books Week in each fall, we will dedicate a few posts to challenged and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/bbw-2023\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books","category-news","category-resources"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Banned Books Week 2023 - Books We Read<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/bbw-2023\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Banned Books Week 2023 - Books We Read\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Save the Date! 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