Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week is coming up! September 26 through October 3. We'll advertise it in our outside storefront window and in a display inside that will be full of juicy banned books. Actually "juicy" is often a misleading term. Many banned books are opposed by only one or two highly opinionated, overly zealous citizens. And you may pick up a banned book and read the whole darned thing without ever grasping what the fuss was about. On the other hand, there are those banned books that might actually make you blush--and take the darned thing back to the library. But that's the point of a free society and an open library. You have the choice to pick up and devour--or return (unread)--any book in our collection. You don't have to read anything you don't want to or allow your children to either. And you don't have to capitulate to someone else's ideas about what you should or shouldn't read. It's a free country and public libraries are one of the best active examples of that freedom. Come on down and cherish your freedom during Banned Books Week. (And you don't even have to pick up a banned book!)