Last Updated on October 14, 2025, 5:23 pm ET
Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and calls attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting current and historical attempts to remove or restrict books in libraries and schools. Many ARL member libraries celebrate Banned Books Week with blog posts, resource lists, and special events. See below for a roundup.
Arizona State University Library
- “Read for Your Rights” During Banned Books Week (resources, events, and activities highlights)
- Banned Books Online Trivia
Duke University Libraries
Banned Books Week 2025
New York Public Library
Banned Books Week at the New York Public Library
NC State University Libraries
Ohio State University Libraries
Banned Books Week: October 6–10, 2025
Penn State University Libraries
- Books Unbanned Library Card Allows Teens and Young Adults from Across the Country to Gain Access to More Books
- Keep Free Speech Weird—Banned Books Week Workshop
- Pennsylvania Authors with Challenged Books
- University Libraries to Host Banned Books Read-In on October 7
- Wear Your Words! A Pin-Making Workshop
Rutgers University Libraries
- Books We Read blog
- Hungarian Library Celebrates Banned Books Week!
- Banned Books Week 2025: A Publisher’s Perspective
- Banned Books Week Display at Paul Robeson Library
- Banned Books Week “Bookeasy” at John Cotton Dana Library
Syracuse University Libraries
Syracuse University Celebrates 2025 Banned Books Week
Temple University Libraries
Banned Books Week: “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.”
Tulane University Libraries
Banned Books Week
University of California, Irvine Libraries
Banned Books Week wrapped book display and virtual bookshelf
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries
4 Ways to Join Banned Books Week
University of Delaware Libraries
Multiple events including 13th Annual Banned Books Read-Out
University of Missouri Libraries
Banned Books Week Presentation by Samuel Cohen, Mizzou Associate Professor of English
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
- Banned Books Week Is October 5–11
- Stand with the Banned: A Banned Books Public Reading
- Moving Screening: The Librarians
University of Utah Library
The Power of Story to Unite Us, with Author Laurie Halse Anderson
University of Washington Libraries
Exhibit: Right to Read: Banned Books and the First Amendment
Vanderbilt University Libraries
- Film screening of No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics
- Banned Books Jam interactive workshop—October 3
- Banned Books Jam interactive workshop—October 6
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
Free to Read Week 2025
