2009 Banned Books Week began Saturday, September 26, and ends Saturday, October 3!
Tuesday, September 29th
Banned Books Week and the Children’s Librarian at 5:00 pm Pacific Time/Second Life Time at Main Stage, ALA Island (130, 103, 31) — A group discussion about issues related to selection policies, intellectual freedom, and handling challenges as they pertain to children’s services. From AASL-SIGMS (American Association for School Librarians, a division of ALA-Special Interest Group Media Specialists of the International Society for Technology in Education).
Thursday, October 1st
Let FREADOM Ring: Celebrate BBW in SL 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Pacific Time/Second Life Time at Banned Books Week Town Square, ALA Island (203, 55, 61) — Produced by the AVL LIS Student Union in SL by MLIS students from the University of Hawaii and San Jose State University, hosted by the American Library Association.
SPECIAL GUEST “Silencing Books: The Suppression of Ideas and FREADOM”
Dr. Rebecca Knuth, Professor of Library and Information Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa, recipient of the Sarah Vann Intellectual Freedom Award, and author of Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century and Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction. In addition, there will be a hunt, music, dancing, a photo contest and other activities. Attend in costume representing a banned/challenged book or author if you like; but this is not required. Free costumes available on site. Have your photo taken and win prizes for best costume 1000L for 1st, 500L for 2nd, and 250L for 3rd.
Friday, October 2nd
San Jose State University Read-A-Thon and Costume Party: A Walk Where the Wild Books Are at 6:30 pm PT/SLT at SJSU SLIS Island (124, 110, 33) FYI: SJSU (San Jose State University) SLIS (School of Library & Information Science)
SCHEDULE
6:30-6:35 — Welcomes and introduction
6:35-6:45 — Susie Schridde BBW PowerPoint (Brief background on BB and read the constitution)
6:45 to 7:15 — Read-a-thon “A walk where the “wild” books are”
6:45-6:50 — Silhshoot Seelowe - Wild Things
6:50-7:00 — Ananta Tomorrow - Fellowship of the Ring
7:00-7:05 — Banned Book or not! Game
6:55-7:00 — Clicquot Oh - Catcher and the Rye
7:00-7:05 — Susie Schridde - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
7:05-7:15 — Hangman game or Guess the BB title
7:15-7:30 – Discussion of banned books
8:00 – Dance – Contest, best in banned book character
9:00 – Contest vote and random drawing for $25 Amazon gift card
9:30 — Conclusion (Fireworks)
* Schedule subject to change
-ONGOING EXHIBITS-
San Jose State University Banned Books Week Exhibit (pictured at left) - Main Stage, ALA Island (137, 102, 29).
Banned Books Week Exhibit of AASL-SIGMS (American Association for School Librarians, a division of ALA-Special Interest Group Media Specialists of the International Society for Technology in Education) at the AASL Area, ALA Island (30, 137, 59).
Videos at Galen Noltenius Sky Platform on ALA Island (206, 100, 46) from the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association in celebration of Banned Books Week! Six videos: 2009 Banned Books Week PSA starring the Crash Pad puppets Chad, Rustle, and Mooch; 2008 Banned Books Week Read-Out wrap-up report; Stephen Chbosky’s Why Not to Ban Books from the 2008 Read-Out; 2008 Banned Books Week PSA video, I’d Like to Find *BLEEP*; 2007 Read-Out Promo with authors; 2007 Banned Books Week Read-Out wrap-up report.
Video at Salon Huron, ALA Island (186, 202, 28) of complete walkthrough of Fahrenheit 451 Commodore 64 videogame from 1984 via the Internet Archive.
AND 2009 Banned Books Week Read-Out wrap-up report at AL Focus Video Village, ALA Island (79, 44, 44).
Story Hour Garden on ALA Island (25, 101, 21) Presents: First Acts and Chapters of Banned Books, courtesy of LibriVox via Internet Archive:
Saturday, Sept 26
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland (Part 1)
Banned Books: 2007 Resource Guide - page 38, No. 271
Banned in Massachusetts in 1821 in the first known U.S. obscenity case.
Sunday, Sept 27
A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen (Act 1)
Banned Books: 2007 Resource Guide - p. 84, No. 764
Monday, Sept 28
Moby Dick, or the Whale - Herman Melville (Chapter 1)
Banned Books: 2007 Resource Guide - p. 114, No. 1102
Tuesday, Sept 29
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (Chapter 1)
Banned Books: 2007 Resource Guide - p. 166-168, No. 1609
Wednesday, Sept 30
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare (Act 1)
Banned Books: 2007 Resource Guide - p. 149, No. 1435
Thursday, Oct 1
Dracula - Bram Stoker (Chapter 1)
Banned Books: 2007 Resource Guide - p. 161, No. 1551
Friday, Oct 2
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll - Lewis Carroll (Chapter 1)
Banned Books: 2007 Resource Guide - p. 35, No. 234
Saturday, Oct 3
Ulysses - James Joyce (Part 1)
Banned Books: 2007 Resource Guide - p. 87, No. 805
Burned in the USA in 1918.