Why Banned Books Week?
When I woke up this morning, I pondered why this week is still called Banned Books Week. Surely by now, someone has challenged or tried to ban a CD or movie or other non-book object in a library. Think about all the discussions of Internet filtering. I suppose I went off on this tangent while pondering how to celebrate this week as a news librarian in a specialized setting. It seems more appropriate for me to talk about journalistic freedom or newspapers that are banned, but newspapers aren’t books. Is there some particular reason why the week still focuses on books? Or is it just that no one has tried to update the week to include nonbook materails in library collections?