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<div style="text-align: center;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 24pt;">Banned Books Week</span></b></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">September 25<sup>th</sup>—October 2, 2010</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Please join us in celebrating our freedom to read!<span style="">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The past three years the ACLU of Oregon, OLA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee, OASL’s Intellectual Freedom Committee, and the Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse
have partnered together to promote Banned Books Week.<span style=""> </span>Last year, 260 libraries in 33 of Oregon’s 36 counties celebrated Banned Books Week through displays, activities, and lessons (see map below).<span style="">
</span>This effort was honored with the American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Roundtable Proquest-SIRSI State and Regional Intellectual Freedom Award at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Here are some resources to help you plan your Banned Books Week activities:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><i style="">2010 Annual Report</i> on challenges to library material in Oregon:
<a href="http://oregon.gov/OSL/LD/intellectual.shtml#Annual_Reports_on_Challenges_in_Oregon" target="_blank">
http://oregon.gov/OSL/LD/intellectual.shtml#Annual_Reports_on_Challenges_in_Oregon</a>
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</span></span></span>Display ideas, activity ideas, lesson plans, and general resources on Banned Books Week:
<a href="http://oregon.gov/OSL/LD/intellectual.shtml#Banned_Books_Week_Planning_Resources" target="_blank">
http://oregon.gov/OSL/LD/intellectual.shtml#Banned_Books_Week_Planning_Resources</a>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black;">American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression.
<i>Banned Books Week Handbook </i></span><i><span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://www.abffe.org/banned2007.htm" target="_blank">http://www.abffe.org/banned2007.htm</a></span></i></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black;">American Library Association. Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read.
</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm</a></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black;">Banned Books Week </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://bannedbooksweek.org/" target="_blank">http://bannedbooksweek.org/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The following map is from pages 8-9 of the ACLU of Oregon’s 2009-2010 Annual Report.<span style="">
</span>You may download and read the full report online at: <a href="http://www.aclu-or.org/content/2009-2010-aclu-oregon-annual-report" target="_blank">
http://www.aclu-or.org/content/2009-2010-aclu-oregon-annual-report</a> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Please note that the book icon represents a library, school, college/university, or bookstore that participated in Banned Books Week in 2009.<span style="">
</span>The number listed in each county is the number of ACLU of Oregon members in that county.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a name="_MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Katie Anderson, Library Development Services</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=""></span><a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us" target="_blank"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: blue;">katie.anderson@state.or.us</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">,
503-378-2528</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></p>
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