[Libs-Or] [Fwd: [alacoun] New Web site to promote Banned Books Week]

[Suzanne Sager]

FYI.  I checked the website this morning and didn't find any events for 
Oregon at this time.

Suzanne Sager

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Subject: 	[alacoun] New Web site to promote Banned Books Week
Date: 	Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:26:03 -0400
From: 	carrieif at aol.com
To: 	alacoun at ala.org
References: 	<8EA2A79DA6895F4B92AEC13ED5D4CEA27B42E7 at BE144.mail.lan> 
<8CAC5584CE79C46-F9C-457F at webmail-nh14.sysops.aol.com>






For further inform ation, contact:
Chris Finan, ABFFE, (212) 587-4025, ext. 15
Judith F. Krug, ALA, (312) 280-4222
*                                                         **For 
Immediate Release***
New Web Site to Promote Banned20Books Week
            NEW YORK, N.Y., August 5, 2008–The American Booksellers 
Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) and the American Library 
Association (ALA) announced today that they are launching a Web site to 
help bookstores and libraries promote Banned Books Week, which will be 
held this year from Sept. 27 through Oct. 4.  The Web site, 
www.bannedbooksweek.org <http://w%20%20ww.bannedbooksweek.org>, is 
intended to help the public learn about Banned Books Week and suggest 
ways they can support it.  The key feature of the Web site will be a 
list that visitors can use to find participating bookstores and 
libraries in their communities.  “Hundreds of bookstores and libraries 
participate in Banned Books Week every year.  Bannedbooksweek.org will 
make it easy for the public to find them,” ABFFE President Chris Finan 
said.  Judith F. Krug, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual 
Freedom, said the Web site will help promote Banned Books Week 
nationally as well as provide support for local efforts.  “We wanted to 
increase the attention for Banned Books Week on the Web while 
simultaneously providing increased support for the bookstores and 
libraries that are mounting displays and sponsoring free speech events,” 
she said.
            Bookstores and libraries that would like to be listed on the 
new Web site can submit details of their Banned Books Week celebration 
directly to the Web site.  Use this link to submit information, 
http://bannedbooksweek.org/signup/.  Once the information has been 
reviewed, it will be posted.   =2 0
 
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Portland State University

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