- Banned Books On-Line - http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
Special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts.
- The File Room - http://www.thefileroom.org/
Archive of case files pertaining to the censorship and suppression of works and ideas from Socrates to Judy Blume.
- Censored - http://www.georgesuttle.com/censorship/
Directory of Web and print censorship resources with detailed descriptions of each link.
- Censored: Wielding the Red Pen - http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/censored/index.html
This exhibition from the University of Virginia Libraries includes numerous cover images of censored books, plus thoughtful and informative commentary.
- Ban These Books Too; It's Only Fair - http://unquietmind.com/banbooks.html
A satirical plea to ban Shakespeare and the Bible on the same basis that other books have been banned.
- Look Out, Harry Potter: Book Banning Heats Up - http://www.education-world.com/a_admin/admin157.shtml
This article from Education World explores the issue of book banning with a special focus on the Rowling's Harry Potter books, and includes a set of resources for establishing procedures in school systems to handle challenges to popular books.
- Banning Books from the Classroom: How To Handle Cries for Censorship - http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr031.shtml
This informative article from education World is mainly aimed at teachers, but it is useful for anyone concerned with book banning and censorship in schools. Challenges to school materials are a common occurrence. How should such challenges be handled? How can they be avoided?
- Banned Books - http://www.banned-books.com/index.html
A bookstore and resource for information about censorship and book banning.
- Censorship Pages - http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/index.htm
Anti-censorship site with a look at banned books.
- Free Expression Network - http://www.freeexpression.org/
Current news, features and trend analysis in free expression issues in U.S.
- Autodafe.org - http://www.autodafe.org/
Autodafe.org provides writings of authors giving their perspectives of the social or political situations, analyses and thoughts on literary creativity, and the examples of censoring currently practiced in the world.
- Censorship and Book Burning - http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/burning/burning.html
Modest collection of sayings and viewpoints of book burning.
- Banned Books: A Pathfinder - http://www.albany.edu/~mr3240/isp605
An librarians' finding guide for information on banned books and censorship.
- Alibris - Banned Books - http://www.alibris.com/articles_features/features/banned/banned.cfm
Alibris' section of books that have been banned, challenged, or expurgated, and the often humorous reasons why.
- Freedom to Read.ca - http://www.freedomtoread.ca/
Freedom to Read Week encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom.
- kidSPEAK - http://www.kidspeakonline.org/
Formerly Muggles for Harry Potter, kidSPEAK believes that it is wrong to ban books in classrooms and school libraries because some parents object to their content. Restricting the use of books that kids want to read violates their First Amendment rights and helps produce an illiterate society.
- Free Expression Policy Project - http://www.fepproject.org/index.html
A think tank on artistic and intellectual freedom that provides empirical research and policy development on tough censorship issues.
- Mark Twain on Book Banning - http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/twain_banned.html
Twain's responses to the banning of his books, from letters and interviews.
- ALA: Banned Books Week - http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm
Information and resources on this year's Banned Books Week, from the American Library Association. Includes an overview of the topic of banned and burned books, press kits, a list of the most frequently challenged books, and links.
- ALA's Top 100 Banned or Challenged Books of 1990-2000 - http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm
A list of the most frequently challenged books of the 1990s, based on the challenges reported to ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom.
- Banned Books: the Virtual Display - http://libraries.luc.edu/about/exhibits/banned/index.shtml
Loyola University Chicago Libraries' information page about book banning in the U.S. and abroad, with a section on electronic documents.
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