Banned Books
Mr. Harkins
English 111
22June2012
Banned Books Banned books are becoming more current in this day of time. People often do not understand the challenge of books or why a book is being banned. Ken Petrilli, the author of “Banned Books Week: Celebrating You (and Celebrating Your (and Your Teens!) Freedom to Read” in the Young Adult Library Services summer of 2009, talks about how he understand, how the parents feel about some books being banned. He also advised ways to make displays for banned books week. Petrilli is a teen service librarian, a musician, and serves on the YALSA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee. “To Read or Not to Read: Understanding Book Censorship” by Deborah Connelly, was published in the Community and Junior College Libraries in the year of 2009. In Connelly’s article, she wants people to know what book censorship means and how librarians deal with people who want to challenge books. In both articles each writer gives a description of why books are banned. Petrilli’s article has less information but his credibility comes from his services as being a librarian and serving on the YALSA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee. Connelly’s article has more information but nowhere in her article is her credibility. However, by analyzing both of the articles neither Petrilli nor Connelly’s articles are scholarly. In the article Ken Petrilli’s “Banned Books Week Celebrating You (and Your Teens!) Freedom to Read” article is to be read by young adult and their parents, and other librarians. Young adults often wonder why their parents or other groups will not allow them to read certain types of books. He state, “As teen and young adult librarian; we are on the frontline of intellectual freedom issues more than anyone else in our profession.”(Petrilli 4) While on the other hand parents do not agree with the materials and content that is in the book that their young adult reads. Where he states “Parents concerned about what their children are reading. This,
English 111
22June2012
Banned Books Banned books are becoming more current in this day of time. People often do not understand the challenge of books or why a book is being banned. Ken Petrilli, the author of “Banned Books Week: Celebrating You (and Celebrating Your (and Your Teens!) Freedom to Read” in the Young Adult Library Services summer of 2009, talks about how he understand, how the parents feel about some books being banned. He also advised ways to make displays for banned books week. Petrilli is a teen service librarian, a musician, and serves on the YALSA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee. “To Read or Not to Read: Understanding Book Censorship” by Deborah Connelly, was published in the Community and Junior College Libraries in the year of 2009. In Connelly’s article, she wants people to know what book censorship means and how librarians deal with people who want to challenge books. In both articles each writer gives a description of why books are banned. Petrilli’s article has less information but his credibility comes from his services as being a librarian and serving on the YALSA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee. Connelly’s article has more information but nowhere in her article is her credibility. However, by analyzing both of the articles neither Petrilli nor Connelly’s articles are scholarly. In the article Ken Petrilli’s “Banned Books Week Celebrating You (and Your Teens!) Freedom to Read” article is to be read by young adult and their parents, and other librarians. Young adults often wonder why their parents or other groups will not allow them to read certain types of books. He state, “As teen and young adult librarian; we are on the frontline of intellectual freedom issues more than anyone else in our profession.”(Petrilli 4) While on the other hand parents do not agree with the materials and content that is in the book that their young adult reads. Where he states “Parents concerned about what their children are reading. This,