Collection Highlights - Banned Books Week - September 23-29, 2018
Our latest Collection Highlights are on display in the glass case in the library lobby. Banned Books Week (September 23-29, 2018) celebrates the freedom to read. We are featuring materials from our collection about banned books and censorship.
The items on display are:
- Literary trials: exceptio artis and theories of literature in court edited by Ralf Grüttemeier - Stacks K 3253 A6 L57 2016
- Battle of the books: literary censorship in the public schools, 1950-1985 by Lee Burress - Stacks Z 658 U5 B87 1989
- The United States of America v. one book entitled Ulysses by James Joyce: documents and commentary: a 50-year retrospective edited by Michael Moscato and Leslie LeBlanc - Stacks KF 224 R33 U53 1984
- Forbidden books in American public libraries, 1876-1939: a study in cultural change by Evelyn Geller - Stacks Z 711.4 G44 1984
- Banned books: literature suppressed on social grounds by Dawn B. Sova - Stacks Z 658 U5 S68 2006
- Books condemned to be burnt by James Anson Farrer - Z 1019 F24 1892 (This item is housed in our Rare Books Collection)
- Animal Farm by George Orwell - PR 6029 R8 A62 1996 (This item is housed in our Popular Reading Collection)
- Tropic of Cancer on trial; a case history of censorship by E. R. Hutchinson - Stacks KF 4775 H88