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Where Have Challenges Happened?
How Are Books Challenged?

A challenge occurs when a person registers a complaint about a particular book or piece of information in a library’s holdings. Challenges can be oral or written. They may even be made as public attacks.

Usually the challenger requests that access to an item be restricted or that it be removed from the library’s collection. If the library subsequently removes, restricts, or excludes that item, censorship has occurred. The First Amendment has been violated.

Where Have Challenges Happened?
How Are Books Challenged?
“Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.”

- Walter Lippmann, author
Challenging Ideas:
Why are Books Challenged?
Removing and Choosing Books
What Is Censorship?
How Are Books Challenged?
You Be The Judge