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Banned Books Week Prep

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression is offering booksellers an updated version of its electronic handbook about how booksellers can participate in Banned Books Week, which will be held September 23-30. The handbook includes banned book lists, news of book bans and challenges, flyers and more.

ABFFE is hoping booksellers will use Banned Books Week to help raise funds to support its fight for First Amendment rights, for which it has designed a donation box for Banned Books Week. To order the free donation boxes, e-mail info@abffe.com.

ABFFE is also offering a Banned Books Week discount on its FREADOM T-shirts, buttons and stickers. To order, download the Banned Books Week order form at abffe.com/bbw-sale.pdf.

ABFFE is also sponsoring "Protecting Privacy, Challenging Secrecy, and Standing Up for the First Amendment," an event honoring the Connecticut librarians who protected their patrons' right to privacy by fighting an FBI subpoena of customer records. The event will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, September 28. ABFFE encourages its Washington area members to attend. More information is available online on ABFFE's Web site.