Banned Books Week: Screening of "The Librarian"

About this event

Collaborative Classroom (CC) 116. The library invites you to join us for a FREE screening of the film, "The Librarians". The film "The Librarians" is about the Krause List. This list targeted 850 books focused on race and LGBTQia stories – triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of extremism fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work – the librarians’ rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale. Banned Books Week is a annual week of events that was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools. Held in the last week of September or first week of October, the annual event highlights the value of free and open access to information and brings together the entire book community — librarians, educators, authors, publishers, booksellers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas.

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