Narrowing My Focus

The Role of Libraries in Book Banning

Madison Library "Banned Books Week 2014" (9/22/2014) via Flickr. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License

After listing questions I had regarding the banned books controversy I hope to address, I have looked back at my list and chosen my favorite three questions. I will explain why each are important to answer in creating my argument.

Who protects freedom of information?

• Libraries at their core are meant to protect public access to information and knowledge.
• I hope to conduct research that leads me to discover other groups that are connected to libraries or that operate in a similar way / with a similar purpose to compare them.

How do libraries fight against censorship?

• Banned Books Week is an enormous movement that has taken libraries across the world by storm.
• I hope to conduct research that leads me to other processes by which libraries reject censorship.

Where does the concept of banning and censoring information come from?

• I hope to conduct research that leads me to the sources of book banning so that I may compare them with libraries and analyze the relationship between libraries and these groups.