To celebrate this event, CSU Libraries will hold a "Banned Book Read-Out" on the main library veranda. We will serve light refreshments at the event.
The Read-Out will take place on Tuesday, September 28 from 12:30 - 1:30 and will feature CSU faculty and staff reading from their favorite banned books.
Banned books are defined as books that have been banned and/or challenged, sometimes through court action, by individuals and/or groups who want them removed from library shelves or from reading lists. Books that have been on a banned books list at one time or another include such classics as:
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Scarlet Letter
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits
- Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
For more information on BBW and a list of frequently challenged books, please visit the ALA web site.
By participating in the Read-Out, you will be speaking out against censorship and showing students that the members of the CSU faculty and staff support their right to read. On a higher level, we are letting our students know that CSU is a university that supports intellectual and cultural diversity through the free exchange of ideas.
Please join us!