{"id":639,"date":"2025-10-10T02:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/?page_id=639"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:31:05","slug":"banned-books-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/news\/banned-books-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Banned Books Week, October 5-11, 2025,<\/b> is a celebration of the freedom to read and the resistance to censorship worldwide.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s theme is \u201cCensorship is so 1984,\u201d a nod to George Orwell\u2019s famous dystopian novel* about a society in which a totalitarian regime strictly controls the information that its heavily surveilled citizens are allowed to access. The ALA\u2019s data shows a shift in the approaches pro-book banning activists are taking and notes that most ban requests in2024 came from people involved in organized movements. In school and public libraries, board members and administrators initiated 72% of censorship requests, while parents initiated only 16%. Additionally, PEN America found that more than 4,000 different titles were removed from school libraries during the 23-24 school year. Oregon is one of several states that saw significant increases in book ban attempts over the past year. Most books that were targeted are about or by LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC people.<\/p>\n

*1984 is available in the PCC Library in print<\/a>, ebook,<\/a> and audiobook<\/a> formats, if you want to read it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tBanned Books Week, October 5-11, 2025, is a celebration of the freedom to read and the resistance to censorship worldwide. Portland Community College Library is a strong advocate of the principle of the freedom to read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42669,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/42669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}