The Mancos Public Library is celebrating Banned Books Week from Monday, Sept. 23 to Sunday, Sept. 29 with a display of banned and challenged books from the last 50-plus years.
Banned Book Week is the national book community's annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books.
Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982. Banned Books Week highlights the value of free and open access to information and brings together the entire book community - librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types - in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.
For more information please call Mancos Public Library at 533-7600.