Freedom to Read Week is celebrated in Canada from February 20-26, 2011.
Freedom to read can never be taken for granted. Even in Canada, a free country by world standards, books and magazines are banned at the border. Books are removed from the shelves in Canadian libraries, schools and bookstores every day. Free speech on the Internet is under attack. Few of these stories make headlines, but they affect the right of Canadians to decide for themselves what they choose to read
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."— Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations (1948)
For more information about Freedom to Read Week go to
http://www.freedomtoread.ca/
Check out the display of banned books in the library.
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