ARL Libraries Celebrate Banned Books Week 2025

Last Updated on October 3, 2025, 12:49 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
  • October 9 at noon (MST)
  • October 9 at 4:00 p.m. (MST)

New York Public Library Banned Books Week at the New York Public Library

NC State University Libraries

• Banned Books Onstage
• Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion—The Librarians

Ohio State University Libraries Banned Books Week: October 6–10, 2025

Penn State University Libraries 

• Keep Free Speech Weird—Banned Books Week Workshop
• 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

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

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