{"id":15254,"date":"2025-07-23T09:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=15254"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:42:13","slug":"bannedbooks-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book Week 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<div>\n                                            \n        \n    <div\n        id=\"books-by-year\"\n        x-data=\"accordion('books-by-year', false)\"\n        class=\"rounded-lg overflow-hidden mb-2 transition-all duration-300 ease-out bg-gray-50\"\n        x-bind:class=\"expanded ? 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Johnson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/gender-queer\/\">Gender Queer<\/a> by Mai Kobabe<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/the-bluest-eye\/\">The Bluest Eye<\/a> by Toni Morrison<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower\/\">The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/a> by Stephen Chbosky<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/tricks\/\">Tricks<\/a> by Ellen Hopkins<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/looking-for-alaska\/\">Looking for Alaska<\/a> by John Green<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl\/\">Me and Earl and the Dying Girl<\/a> by Jesse Andrews<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/crank\/\">Crank<\/a> by Ellen Hopkins<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/sold\/\">Sold<\/a> by Patricia McCormick<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/flamer\/\">Flamer<\/a> by Mike Curato<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>General Information<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books! The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From October 5-11, 2025, the Marshall University Libraries will be observing Banned Book Week with a display in the Drinko Library and an updated website. The theme this year is <strong>&#8220;Censorship is so 1984: Read for Your Rights!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visit the website or stop by the display on the first floor of Drinko to see what has been challenged or banned over the past year. Contact Ron Titus at 696-6575 or library@marshall.edu with questions.<\/p>\n<p>Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose and the freedom to express one&#8217;s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular, stressing the importance of ensuring the availability of those viewpoints to all who wish to read them. It is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the American Library Association (ALA), the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National Association of College Stores. It is endorsed by the Library of Congress&#8217; Center for the Book.<\/p>\n<p>Material for this page was obtained from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\"> American Library Association&#8217;s Office of Intellectual Freedom<\/a> and ALA&#8217;s <strong>Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy Vol. 6 (1-4)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>July 23, 2025<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15254","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15254"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15512,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15254\/revisions\/15512"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}