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At the time the book was taken seriously, but later Ms. Peck claimed it was written merely as "humor" [4] and it is usually missing from subsequent lists of her books. The book was quite popular, selling more than 50,000 copies in hard-cover, [ 5 ] and during the 1970s she wrote an advice column for teen-agers, called "The Column," which ...
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
The library was ransacked by troops of Cardinal Cisneros in late 1499, the books were taken to the Plaza Bib-Rambla, where most of them were burned. [27] Bibliotheca Corviniana: Buda: Hungary: 1526 Ottoman Turks Library was destroyed by Ottomans in the Battle of Mohács. [28] Monastic libraries: England: England: 1530s Royal officials
On Tuesday afternoon, a dumpster in the parking lot of the school's Jane Bancroft Cook Library overflowed with books and collections from the now-defunct Gender and Diversity Center. Video showed ...
A controversial plan to move some books in the Columbia County Library from the "Young Adult" or "Teen" sections to the "Adult" section is moving forward after a meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 10.
Hundreds of books have been challenged, including high-profile examples like Maus by Art Spiegelman and New Kid by Jerry Craft. The American Library Association documented 1,269 demands of book censorship in 2022. It was the highest the organization had ever recorded since it began collecting censorship data more than 20 years prior.
The book was unable to get certification for publication thus making it banned in Vietnam [303] "Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968" Nha Ca: 1969 Nonfiction The book was banned for its criticism of the actions of the national liberation front and for acknowledging the 1968 massacre of 6000 civilians in Huế
[2] [3] He based the concept on the books kept by Umberto Eco [4] —who used the term "antilibrary" to describe Jonathan Swift's description of a library on Gulliver's Travels [5] —writing that Eco "separates visitors into two categories": those who praise the size of his library and those who recognize that a library is a tool for research ...