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What are Banned Books, exactly? And what’s Challenged vs Banned mean? The Silent Book Club explains it so well. Here’s t...
10/10/2026

What are Banned Books, exactly? And what’s Challenged vs Banned mean? The Silent Book Club explains it so well. Here’s the SBC’s explanation. Learn more so you can take an educated stand against censorship. Libraries and librarians take action because of you. You are important and you matter. Everyone deserves to see representations of themselves in the books they read. Stand with the banned.





10/10/2026

Thank you for joining the Memorial Library in raising awareness for banned and challenged books during the American Library Association’s 2026 Banned Books Week. 📚

Happy 150th Anniversary to the American Library Association! 🎉

For their 150th anniversary, ALA has released a list of the 150 most challenged book since their Office of Intellectual Freedom started recording titles in 1967.

Read more and explore the list of 150 book titles in this article from ALA.

https://ala150.org/alas-anniversary-meets-a-critical-moment-for-the-right-to-read/





10/10/2026

🎨 Watercolor Bookmarks 🖌️
are on the Library’s Maker Cart!!!

Stress Less - Make More

Visit the Library’s Makerspace Maker Cart by the Book Mark Cafe and help yourself to a take and make craft.

New crafts every week!





10/09/2026

TOP 11 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2025

The American Library Association documented 487 attempts to censor books at libraries, schools, and universities in 2025. The reasons most commonly cited for censorship were false claims of illegal obscenity for minors; inclusion of LGBTQIA+ representation; covering topics of race, racism, social justice, and diversity; and presenting political or religious views with which the challengers disagreed. Of the 4,235 unique titles that were challenged or banned in 2025, here are the top 11 most frequently targeted.

1 Sold
2 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3 Gender Q***r: A Memoir
4 Empire of Storms
5 Last Night at the Telegraph Club (tie)
5 Tricks (tie)
7 A Court of Thorns and Roses
8 A Clockwork Orange (tie)
8 Identical (tie)
8 Looking for Alaska (tie)
8 Storm and Fury (tie)

https://ALA.ORG/BBOOKS





10/08/2026

Join us for CROCHET YOUR WAY TO MINDFULNESS

PRESENTED BY CONLEY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS SERVICES AND THE MAKERSPACE.

A BI-WEEKLY BEGINNER-FRIENDLY
WORKSHOP TO LEARN THE BASICS OF CROCHET AND DISCOVER HOW THIS HOBBY CAN SUPPORT YOUR WELLNESS!

4 PM - 5 PM
LIBRARY MAKERSPACE
2ND FLOOR, ROOM B204 SESSION DATES:

10/08/26
10/22/26
11/05/26
11/19/26
12/03/26

For more information or to request a reasonable accomodation email [email protected]

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10/07/2026

📚 Thank you to everyone who showed up for the Memorial Library’s Banned Books Week event “Banned Books Read Aloud” to listen and those who read aloud from Banned Books!

📚 Raising awareness is crucial and we appreciate each of you and your efforts to shed light on banned and challenged books.

“ is an annual observation started more than 40 years ago in response to a sudden surge in the number of attempts to censor or remove books in libraries, schools, and bookstores. Sound familiar?

Today, libraries continue to face record numbers of challenges to the books on their shelves. And contrary to common narratives suggesting that concerned parents are driving these challenges, data from ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom suggests otherwise - 92% of these challenges came from pressure groups and government officials in 2025.

For this year's Banned Books Week, we remind our communities that a handful of people running organized censorship campaigns should not be allowed to dictate what the rest of us can read, and that the joy and creativity of reading is not only an act of resistance, but a freedom that must be protected.” - American Library Association

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10/02/2026

🎁 Stop by the Makercart to make your own Trinket Tin!!!

❤️ Completely FREE Take & Make Craft

✂️ Different Craft each week

📍 Located in the Library by the Book Mark Cafe





10/02/2026

Join us at the Memorial Library for a
📕 BANNED BOOK READ ALOUD

October 6, 2026, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
📗 Fralick Teaching Materials Center

📚 Celebrate the Freedom to Read 📚

📘 Join members of the campus community as they read excerpts from banned and challenged books in recognition of Banned Books Week 2026.

📙 Whether you drop by or stay for a while, you'll hear the voices, stories, and ideas that others tried to silence.





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