Research Guides: Banned Books Week: Home

Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information.

Key Resources

Banned Books Week
Website for the annual celebration of Banned Books Week. Learn about the history of censorship in the United States and find a variety of resources.
Missing: Find a Banned Book
The American Library Association's collection of information pages on banned and challenged books. Includes list of the most frequently challenged titles by year.
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
Non-profit organization devoted to the protection of first amendment rights of people working in the comics/graphic novel medium. Get information on the anti-comics censorship movement of the 1950s and development of the Comics Code Authority.
Pen American Center
Organization devoted to the freedom of expression and literature. When there's the freedom to read, there must also be the freedom to write.
PEN America
"PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide."
Office of Intellectual Freedom blog
Blog devoted to intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information--from the Office of Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association.