Newport Public Library observes banned book week
Posted by webmaster on 29/09/05
To promote awareness of Banned Book Week, Sept. 24 to October 1, library staff created a display featuring cast iron chains, keys, and locks wrapped around commonly challenged and banned books...

To promote awareness of Banned Book Week, Sept. 24 to October 1, library staff created a display featuring cast iron chains, keys, and locks wrapped around commonly challenged and banned books.The American Library Association received a total of 547 challenges last year. A challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint, filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness. aAds = new Array(); aAds[0] = new Array(); aAds[0][0] = 'ads+middle'; aAds[0][1] = '30139'; aAds[0][2] = 'js';

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