10/05/2026
The CSUSB Libraries are celebrating...
Banned Books Week! Oct 4 - 10, 2026
Banned Books Week is a time for us to bring awareness to book banning, censorship, and the freedom to read! ✊📚📖
“Libraries exist to make space for every story and every lived experience,” said ALA President Sam Helmick. “As we celebrate National Library Week, we reaffirm that libraries are places for knowledge, for access, and for all.”
"-American Library Association's(ALA's) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) tracked 4,235 unique titles challenged in 2025, the second highest ever documented by ALA. The highest ever documented was 4,240 in 2023.
-Of the unique titles challenged in 2025, 1,671 (39%) represent the lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ people and people of color.
-ALA documented 713 attempts to censor library materials and services, 487 of which targeted books.
-In 2025, 92% of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials and decision makers, up from 72% in 2024. Less than 3% of challenges originated from individual parents.
-OIF documented 5,668 books banned from libraries (66% of the total challenged) in 2025. An additional 920 books were censored through access restrictions such as relocation or requiring parental permission. This is both the highest number of titles censored in one year and the highest rate of challenges resulting in censorship from 1990–2025."
(www.ala.org/bbooks)
