{"id":261,"date":"2008-09-25T13:12:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T19:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/2008\/09\/25\/celebrating-the-freedom-to-read\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:38:16","slug":"celebrating-the-freedom-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2008\/09\/25\/celebrating-the-freedom-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Freedom to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2008, marks BBW&#8217;s 27th anniversary (<strong>September 27 through October 4<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one\u2019s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.<\/p>\n<p>BBW is sponsored by the\u00a0American Booksellers Association,\u00a0American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression,\u00a0American Library Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Association of American Publishers, National Association of College Stores, and is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/index.cfm\">American Library Association<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Banned Books Week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/aboutala\/offices\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/bannedbooksweek.cfm\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2008, marks BBW&#8217;s 27th anniversary (September 27 through October 4). BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}