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Weekly News Digest
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September 24, 2024 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Banned Books Week 2024
 It’s Banned Books Week, the annual event that “highlights the value of free and open access to information and brings together the entire book community—librarians, educators, authors, publishers, booksellers, and readers of all types—in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas,” according to Banned Books Week’s About page. Stay informed with the following resources and use #BannedBooksWeek and #FreedBetweenTheLines on social media.Publishers Weekly has multiple articles on its homepage, including “Penguin Random House Creates New Role to Help Battle Book Bans,” “PEN America Finds New State Laws Are Supercharging School Book Bans,” “ALA Finds Book Challenges Are Slowing in 2024,” and “How Booksellers Are Taking On Book Banners.” Speaking of PEN America and ALA, each site has important resources about book banning research and getting involved in fighting censorship. Visit PEN America’s Banned Books Week 2024, and visit ALA’s Banned Books Week. Don’t forget to check out EveryLibrary Live! Banned Books Week Fest 2024. Book Riot, which publishes a weekly roundup of censorship news by Kelly Jensen, is promoting the Banned Wagon tour, which “will make stops at libraries and bookstores in nine American communities across the Midwest and the South. These communities are among the many being impacted by a wave of book banning efforts that first surged in late 2020.” The site’s series on last week’s Prison Banned Books Week is also essential reading. Look to your local indie bookstore and local library to see how they are promoting Banned Books Week. In addition, the major publishers are spreading awareness on their websites and listing the books from their catalogs that have been banned or challenged. Hachette is running a sale on select titles using the promo code BANNED2024. HarperCollins has a Right to Read page featuring ideas for taking action. Macmillan has the comprehensive info page Stand Up for the Freedom to Read. Penguin Random House lists The Most Challenged and Banned Books. Simon & Schuster explicitly marks Banned Books Week 2024 with Freed Between the Lines.
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Brandi Scardilli
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