Censorship is so 1984 - Read For Your Rights!
Banned Books Week 2025 is being celebrated October 5th - 11th, 2025. However KCAD Library believes we should celebrate books and reading anytime! We can find freedom in the pages of a book — but book bans and censorship threaten that freedom, along with many other rights and institutions. During Banned Books Week and beyond, let’s share our love of the right to read and the freedom found in books.
Remember! You can celebrate your freedom to read anytime! - Use MeLCat to request a banned book or any book, today!
Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. 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. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship.
Please explore this guide and the resources provided to learn more about challenged and banned books.
Banned Book FAQ - American Library Association
Content and images used in this guide were provided by Banned & Challenged Books: A website of the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom.