{"id":16678,"date":"2017-10-01T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T04:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=16678"},"modified":"2017-10-01T09:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T13:34:35","slug":"banned-books-week-from-a-grad-students-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/banned-books-week-from-a-grad-students-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week from a Grad Student’s Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Occasionally, the ALSC staff has the pleasure of working with interns early in their careers. Sometimes they are future librarians, and sometimes they aspire to enter a different but related field. That was the case of one of our recent intern, Sania Zaffar. She is a student at Loyola University in Chicago studying to become a Special Education elementary teacher. When Sania began working with ALSC, she was not familiar with Banned Books Week<\/strong>, so she spent some time with Kristin Pekoll, Assistant Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF)<\/a> to learn all about it.<\/p>\n

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One of the things that stood out during their conversation was that books\u00a0targeted toward middle-age youth are more challenged or banned than those for younger children.<\/p>\n

Check out Sania\u2019s article, Never Judge a [Children\u2019s] Book by Its Cover<\/a> to find out more about why. This does not mean picture books are never called into question or subject of heated debate. OIF maintains a list called \u201cFrequently Challenged Children\u2019s Books<\/a>.\u201d On this list are a few titles that have received an ALSC award or honor. So what does that say to a caregiver, if anything? In her article, Sania discusses this along with resources to help librarians and teacher have important conversations about challenged books.<\/p>\n

The work of defending intellectual freedom and addressing access issues continues on after Banned Books Week! You can also visit ALA’s challenge support page<\/a> for more resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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