Presentation for KASL 2012 conference

1. The Forbidden Banned Books
Desirée Moore, Goddard High Library Media Specialist
Dee Stoecker, Dodge City Library Media Specialist

3. What is Banned Books Week?
• Began celebrating in 1982
• Always the last week in September
• Goal:
– to highlight benefits of free, open access to
information
– to draw attention to harms of censorship by
spotlighting attempts to ban books
• Celebrated by librarians, educators,
booksellers, authors, and civil liberties groups.

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5. PROGRAMMING IDEAS FOR
CELEBRATING BANNED BOOKS WEEK
• Newbie: Start simple.

6. Newbie: Start simple.
Create a display to celebrate Banned Books.

7. Newbie: Start simple.
Create a display to celebrate Banned Books.

8. Newbie: Start simple.
Create a display to celebrate Banned Books.

9. Newbie: Start simple.
Create a display to celebrate Banned Books.

10. Newbie: Start simple.
Create a display to celebrate Banned Books.

11. Newbie: Start simple.
Create a display to celebrate Banned Books.

12. PROGRAMMING IDEAS FOR
CELEBRATING BANNED BOOKS WEEK
• Newbie: Start simple.
• Activist: Take it up a notch.

13. Activist: Take it up a notch
Take the display to the shelves.

14. Activist: Take it up a notch
Incorporate books throughout the library.

15. Activist: Take it up a notch
Make your display interactive.

16. PROGRAMMING IDEAS FOR
CELEBRATING BANNED BOOKS WEEK
• Newbie: Start simple.
• Activist: Take it up a notch.
• Book Defender: Plan an Program.

17. Book Defender: Plan a Program
Show Virtual Readouts or other BBW Videos.

18. Book Defender: Plan a Program
Create a survey and give reward for completing it.

19. Book Defender: Plan a Program
Create a promotion for readers of banned books.

20. Book Defender: Plan a Program
Create a scavenger hunt involving banned books.

21. Book Defender: Plan a Program
Host a panel on censorship & intellectual freedom.
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Invite public librarians, authors, journalists, parents, school board
members, etc. to sit on the panel and participate in the
conversation.

22. Book Defender: Plan a Program
Hold a contest for students with a significant prize.
INTERVIEWS

23. PROGRAMMING IDEAS FOR
CELEBRATING BANNED BOOKS WEEK
• Newbie: Start simple.
• Activist: Take it up a notch.
• Book Defender: Plan an Program.
• Conspirator: Recruit collaborators.

24. Conspirator: Recruit Collaborators
Collaborate with the Government Teachers
on a project on First Amendment Rights.

25. Conspirator: Recruit Collaborators
Collaborate with the Fine Arts Instructors on
a project on censorship in the arts.

26. Conspirator: Recruit Collaborators
Collaborate with the English Teachers on a
project examining banned books.
Letters to the Editor

27. Conspirator: Recruit Collaborators
Collaborate with Social Studies Teachers on a
project on historical Instances of censorship.

28. Conspirator: Recruit Collaborators
Collaborate with Journalism Teachers on a
project on censorship of the media.

29. Conspirator: Recruit Collaborators
Get as many collaborators involved as
you can to insure the most success!

30. PROGRAMMING IDEAS FOR
CELEBRATING BANNED BOOKS WEEK
• Newbie: Start simple.
• Activist: Take it up a notch.
• Book Defender: Plan an Program.
• Conspirator: Recruit collaborators.
• Freedom Champion: Sky’s the limit

31. Freedom Champion: Sky’s the limit
You are only limited by your imagination!

32. Freedom Champion: Sky’s the limit
You are only limited by your imagination!

33. It’s About Advocacy
• In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss
of books that will never be written. I
mourn the voices that will be silenced --
writers’ voices, teachers’ voices,
students’ voices -- and all because of fear
[of censorship].
– Judy Blume in Places I Never Meant to Be

34. Resources to Help You

35. Resources to Help You

36. Resources to Help You

37. Manifesto by Ellen Hopkins
To you zealots and bigots and false
patriots who live in fear of discourse.
You screamers and banners and burners
who would force books
off shelves in your brand name
of greater good.

38. Manifesto by Ellen Hopkins
You say you're afraid for children,
innocents ripe for corruption
by perversion or sorcery on the page.
But sticks and stones do break
bones, and ignorance is no armor.
You do not speak for me,
and will not deny my kids magic
in favor of miracles.

39. Manifesto by Ellen Hopkins
You say you're afraid for America,
the red, white, and blue corroded
by terrorists, socialists, the sexually
confused. But we are a vast quilt
of patchwork cultures and multi-gendered
identities. You cannot speak for those
whose ancestors braved different seas.

40. Manifesto by Ellen Hopkins
You say you're afraid for God,
the living word eroded by Muhammed
and Darwin and Magdalene.
But the omnipotent sculptor of heaven
and earth designed intelligence.
Surely you dare not speak
for the father, who opens
his arms to all.

41. Manifesto by Ellen Hopkins
A word to the unwise.
Torch every book.
Char every page.
Burn every word to ash.
Ideas are incombustible.
And therein lies your real fear.