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27th Annual UToledo Banned Books Vigil
Free Books! Door Prizes!Light Refreshments! Extra Credit Attendance Vouchers for Classes!
2024 Dr. Linda Smith Lecturer: Dr. Jim Ferris, Poet, Performance Artists, and Disabiloity Scholar will speak at noon.
Campus friends:
The generosity of our friends empowers use to provide refreshments, banned books, and door prizes. Here is a list of last fall’s donors:
Office of Accessibility and Disability Resources, the UToledo President’s Office, Judith Herb College of Education, Campus Activities and Programming, Student Government, Office of Multicultural Student Success, UToledo Counseling, UToledo Departments: Theatre & Film, Art, and English. Jerry & Ann Garden Gifts, and the Division of Student Affairs.
Special thanks to Provost Scott Molitor, UToledo General Libraries, Jesup Scott Honors College, Communication Department and the College of Arts and Letters, Mojisola Tiamiyu, Marcia King Blandford, and WXUT.
Related:
- "Banned Books Week" Proclamation, Office of the Mayor, City of Toledo
- ALA’s list of Frequently Challenged Books: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has launched The Banned Book Club to ensure free access to books they want to read
Video Recordings of UT Banned Books Vigils from 2015 to Present
2023 - 26th UT Banned Books Vigil (YouTube)
2022 - 25th UT Banned Books Vigil (YouTube)
2021 - 24th UT Banned Books Vigil (YouTube)
2020 - 23rd UT Banned Books Vigil (YouTube)
2015-2019 UT Banned Books Vigils (KnowledgeStream)
*NOTE: The webcast will not be available on the Webex app. Webex will install a plugin on your computer, which can take a few minutes.
The University of Toledo Banned Books Coalition:
Dr. Paulette D. Kilmer, coordionator, Dr. Sumitra Srinivasan (Communication Department); Arjun Sabharwal (University Libraries); Aleiah Jones (Director of the Multicultural Student Success Center); Laura Mitchell (UToledo Alumna); Saadia Farooq (BGSU graduate student); Dr. Ali Imami (UToledo graduate student); and Taylor Czaja (UToledo Student)
