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By: Eric Silberberg, Instructional Design and Education Librarian<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"October 5\u201311 is Banned Books Week, and this year the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education (EECE) and Queens College Library teamed up to spotlight banned and challenged books. The entire QC community is invited to see the display in front of the EECE office in Powdermaker Hall and borrow books from the display on the main floor of the Library.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and the value of access to information by spotlighting books that have been challenged or banned in schools and libraries across the country. The two QC displays feature picture books, young adult novels, and classic works of U.S. literature that have all faced challenges or state-sanctioned bans.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The American Library Association (ALA) started Banned Books Week in 1982. While book challenges have been a part of U.S. political culture since the nation’s founding, the ALA has documented an explosion in the number of bans since 2020.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We might assume that book bans don’t happen in New York. However, the library display features three prominent court cases that occurred in New York that addressed the limits of young people’s freedom to read.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Banned Books Week display at EECE Office in Powdermaker Hall<\/p><\/div>\n

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Featured New York Court Cases on the Freedom to Read<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico (1982)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n