News Report # 2

Freedom to Read Foundation Awards Seven Judith Krug Fund grants for Banned Books Week Events By Jonathan M. Kelley September 9, 2010 http://ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pr.cfm?id=4910

This article is about grants that the Judith Krug Memorial Fund has given out to schools and libraries all over the country in order for them to go on with projects related to Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week is September 25- October 2 this year. Each year the week seeks to draw attention to the harm of censorship and the freedom to access information. This is the first year that the Judith Krug Memorial Fund has done anything. The Fund was established in April 2009 after the death of Krug who founded the Freedom to Read Foundation. Krug was the person who founded Banned Books week in the first place back in 1982. The biggest grant of 2,500 was given to the Iowa City Public Library, which they will use to support their “Rolling Read-Out!” that will be during the homecoming parade at the University of Iowa. Six other organizations received 1,000-dollar grants to put towards their activities. These organizations include Dayton (Ohio) Metro Library East Branch, ACLU of Pennsylvania, Canisius College in Buffalo N.Y, Santa Monica California Public Library, St. Catherine College in Kentucky, and Takoma Park Maryland Library.
I found this article to be very interesting. I think that is really cool that all of these places are doing things to support Banned Books Week. It was nice to see that the Judith Krug Memorial Fund was also helping them out with grants so that they can make their activities even better. I did not know that Banned Books Week was this popular I mean I have heard of it but I did not believe it was this big.