{"id":5168,"date":"2025-09-30T12:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:58:40","slug":"celebrate-banned-books-week-at-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/celebrate-banned-books-week-at-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Banned Books Week at the Library!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Banned books week (October 5 \u2013 11, 2025), was established back in 1982 by the <em>American Library Association\u2019s Office for Intellectual Freedom<\/em> in response to a rise in the number of challenged books in libraries, bookstores, and schools. The tradition has continued through to the present day in 2025. This year\u2019s theme is <em>Censorship Is So 1984 \u2014 Read for Your Rights. <\/em>Enjoy our <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.library.reed.edu\/discovery\/collectionDiscovery?vid=01ALLIANCE_REED:REED&amp;collectionId=81476801030001841&amp;lang=en\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/catalog.library.reed.edu\/discovery\/collectionDiscovery?vid=01ALLIANCE_REED:REED&amp;collectionId=81476801030001841&amp;lang=en\">featured digital collection<\/a> of all the Banned Books we have at Reed Library to celebrate your right to read! The digital exhibit was created by your fellow Reedie Willow Picket \u2105 26\u2019. We appreciate Willow\u2019s contribution and work to help us celebrate Banned Books week.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/files\/2025\/09\/Untitled-940-x-557-px-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5171\" style=\"width:572px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/files\/2025\/09\/Untitled-940-x-557-px-1.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/files\/2025\/09\/Untitled-940-x-557-px-1-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/files\/2025\/09\/Untitled-940-x-557-px-1-768x455.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kick off the celebration of reading all things banned by attending our Silent Reading event Thursday October 2, 2025 from 6:30pm-7:30pm. We will have exclusive Banned Books Week SWAG, a banned books guessing game, and plenty of time to relax and curl up with your favorite banned book!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still looking for ways to celebrate\/get involved? Visit the official <a href=\"https:\/\/bannedbooksweek.org\/let-freedom-read-day\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bannedbooksweek.org\/let-freedom-read-day\/\">Banned Books Week Website <\/a>for more information about defending everyone&#8217;s freedom to read! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banned books week (October 5 \u2013 11, 2025), was established back in 1982 by the American Library Association\u2019s Office for Intellectual Freedom in response to a rise in the number of challenged books in libraries, bookstores, and schools. The tradition has continued through to the present day in 2025. This year\u2019s theme is Censorship Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2576,"featured_media":5175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-general","tag-banned-books-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5174,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions\/5174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}