Recently there have been rumours that Sarah Palin, as Mayor of Wasilla Alaska, rang up her local librarian to find out how she could get books banned.

Via Boing Boing, i stumbled on this post from Everybody’s Libraries: “Why Banned Books Week matters”. You can find a list of books that have been banned around the world, as well as information about this book week.

Interesting to see that the South African govt once banned “Black Beauty”.

Not everyone is fortunate enough to live in a country where the right-wing lunatics have only a handful of seats in the parliamentary house of review.

image and photo credits: licensed under creative commons at flickr: Thanks very much: sidelong