Banned Books Week Coalition. The united states campaign focuses on ensuring that expression of unorthodox or unpopular points of view is not stifled and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those views to all who want to read them. Arjun sabharwal, university libraries, arjun.sabharwal@utoledo.edu.
Laura mitchell (ut alumna), ut alumna, lknisel@hotmail.com, josie schreiber (toledo love mobile children's library founder),. The banned books week coalition is an international alliance of diverse organizations joined by a commitment to increase awareness of the annual celebration of the freedom to read. A nationwide campaign celebrating the freedom to.
Banned books week also receives immense support from the american library association (ala), which has recorded the banning and challenging of books since 1990.
Laura mitchell (ut alumna), ut alumna, lknisel@hotmail.com, josie schreiber (toledo love mobile children's library founder),. Banned books week was founded in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books. It was started in the early 80s in response to an increase in the number of books being challenged. Charles brownstein, chair of the banned books week coalition and executive director of the comic book legal defense fund, said: