Banned Books Display

Banned Books Week – October 5-11, 2025

Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools. The annual event highlights the value of free and open access to information and brings together the entire book community — librarians, educators, authors, publishers, booksellers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas.

Previous DEI Displays:

• Workplace Diversity
• Civil Rights & Democracy
• Immigration/Refugees
• Neurodiveristy
• Celebrating Black Music
• Age Discrimination | Ageism
• White Privilege, Power, and Supremacy
• Lives and Experiences of Immigrants and Refugees
• BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Authors
• Banned Books
• LGBTQA+ Pride 
• Religion
• Implicit Bias, Microaggressions
• Poverty
• Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions
• Exploring Public Heath: Building Stronger, Healthier Communities

About

The EWU Libraries and Learning Commons is committed to providing and supporting a welcoming, safe and inclusive environment for all members of our diverse campus community. Our commitment reflects the long-standing pledge to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) within the library profession and incorporates the DEI goals of the EWU Strategic Plan.

DEI in the library is about recognizing all members of our campus community, realizing that each individual is unique.

In order to better promote DEI materials and resources in the library collection that help build a foundation for greater understanding in the community, we have created a new, highly visible and accessible topic area in the JFK Lobby, adjacent to the New Books section. While we will continue to feature multicultural resource displays in the central lobby, this permanent DEI location will highlight resources on specific DEI topics and themes that are timely and impactful, in a monthly rotation.

This is a collaborative effort among library faculty and staff, library student workers and campus partners.

Display themes will be generated through shared discussion and campus collaboration, with input from library student workers.

For more information on this initiative, please contact Qing Stellwagen, Professor, Librarian for Ethnic Studies & Center, Women’s & Sexuality Studies (GWSS), Political Science, and International Affairs (qstellwagen@ewu.edu).

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion