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ALT Aerial shot of Bates College in fall with the "Fulbright Top Producer: U.S. Student Program 2024-2025" badge in the lower right hand corner.
ALT Drone shot of sunrise over the Bates College campus. QuestBridge logo on lower left corner and Bates College logo on lower right corner.
ALT Official banner poster for Bates College's MLK Day observance. Black and white lines that bend from left to right. Text says, "BENDING TOWARD JUSTICE: Peace and Nonviolence. MLK Day 2025. On right, headshot of keynote speaker Erica Chenoweth.
ALT Sunrise over the Bates Historic Quad seen from above. Students walk to class along a tree lined path during late fall. "Welcome Bates Class of 2029!" is over a bright red tree. #BatesBound and the Bates wordmark can be seen in the lower left hand and righthand corners respectively.
ALT A building with a painted mural of a giant blue jay in flight. Parking lot can be seen in foreground.
ALT A woman walks down the street in front of a fantastically colored building mural.
ALT A wall with brightly colored butterfly wings can be seen on the wall separated by a small blue heart. A poem is written to the right, "There is freedom waiting for you on the breezes of the sky and you ask, "WHAT IF I FALL?" Oh, but my darling, What if you fly?"
ALT Bright neon lights spelling out "Hopeful" by Lewiston sculptor Charlie Hewett
ALT January 1 - August 31, 2024. 414 attempts to censor library materials and services. New reporting data from the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. Unite Against Book Bans.
ALT January 1 - August 31, 2024. 1,128 unique titles targeted for censorship. New reporting data from the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. Unite Against Book Bans.
ALT While the volume of reports has declined in 2024, the number of documented attempts to censor books continues to far exceed the numbers prior to 2020. Because many book challenges are not reported to ALA or covered by the press, the 2024 data compiled by ALA represents only a snapshot of book censorship throughout the first eight months of the year. 2010 - 2019: 343 average reported challenges per year. 2023: 695 reported challenges Jan 1- Aug 31. 2024: 414 reported challenges Jan 1 - Aug 31. New reporting data from the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom.
ALT Additionally, instances of soft censorship, where books are purchased but placed in restricted areas, not used in library displays, or otherwise hidden or kept off limits due to fear of challenges, illustrate the impact of organized censorship campaigns on students' and readers' freedom to read. In some circumstances, books have been preemptively excluded from library collections, taken off the shelves before they are banned, or not purchased for library collections in the first place. Unite Against Book Bans.
ALT Freed Between the Lines. ALA American Library Association. Banned Books Week. Sept. 22-28, 2024. ALA.org/BBooks.
