American Library Association (ALA) Banned Books
Week
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/
An extensive collection of resources that includes a list of the
100 most frequently challenged books, a discussion of other challenged
and banned books, and a history of book burning.
Banned Books and Censorship
http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/banned.htm
A list of links to resources about who challenges books and why,
along with links to lists of banned books.
Banned Books
http://www.mtsu.edu/~vvesper/ban.html
Links and lists of banned books.
Banned Books Online
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
A list of banned books with links and other resources about censorship.
The Beacon for Freedom Project
http://www.beaconforfreedom.org
Run by the Norwegian Library Association. An extensive database
on censored books and newspapers throughout the world, along with
publications about censorship and freedom of expression.
Bonfire of Liberties: Censorship of the Humanities
Exhibition
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/literature/bonfire/
An excellent exhibit on censorship that combines graphics and
text in its presentation. The site summarizes the censorship history
of many books and allows the user to navigate to each book through
a textual outline or a gallery of images. The “Censored Books”
button brings up a list of titles, including “Young Reader’s
Targets.”
Censored
http://www.georgesuttle.com/censorship/
“These pages comprise an extensive, organized, and in most
cases annotated directory of Internet and print resources on various
aspects of censorship and free expression.”
Challenged and Banned Books
http://www.st-charles.lib.il.us/arl/arl_banned.htm
Lists of frequently banned books from 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2001.
The File Room
http://www.thefileroom.org
The File Room, maintained by the National Coalition Against Censorship
(http://www.ncac.org/), is an extensive archive of censorships
incidents. It can be searched by date, location, subject (language,
nudity, political opinion, etc.), and medium (visual arts, print,
etc.) Select “Search the File Room” to view these search
options.
The Free Expression Policy Project
http://www.fepproject.org/index.html
“The Free Expression Policy Project began in 2000 to provide
empirical research and policy development on tough censorship
issues and seek free speech-friendly solutions to the concerns
that drive censorship campaigns.”
He who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe: an exhibition
of books which have survived Fire, the Sword and the Censors
http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/bannedbooks/bannedbooks.html
This site is an online re-issue of an internationally noted exhibition
on intellectual freedom developed in 1955 at the Kenneth Spencer
Research Library, University of Kansas. The site has unique illustrations
of many texts and covers England, Germany, Russia, France, Spain,
United States, and other countries.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19
http://www.article19.org/
“Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, we work worldwide to combat censorship by promoting freedom
of expression and access to official information.”
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