Read-out being held to raise awareness for banned book week

Read-out being held to raise awareness for banned book week

Top 10 challenged books of 2011:

Source: The American Library Association

Sections of banned and challenged books will be read aloud Wednesday to protest censorship and recognize the national Banned Book Week.

The OU School of Library and Information Studies and the Oklahoma Library and Information Studies Students Association will be holding a Read-Out from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday on the South Oval, according to the schools website.

Last year, they set up a table and took turns reading aloud, and it was so cute to see all these college students sitting down listening to each other read aloud to teach tolerance, said Cecelia Brown, professor and director for the OU School of Library and Information Studies.

Each year, the American Library Association receives hundreds of reports from libraries, schools and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country, according to the associations website. The association holds a Banned Book Week to raise awareness of and condemn censorship to ensure free access to information.

These books are challenged for different reasons, ranging from language to culture to anything that people disagree with, Brown said. A successful challenge results in these books being banned from schools, public libraries

and other institutions.

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Read-out being held to raise awareness for banned book week