Title: Book Banning – UNSUITABLE
Headings: Book Banning
Book Banning
Book Banning and Romance Fiction in the United States
Challenged Romance Novels
Conclusion
References

Content: Brady, 2016)
As of 2017, Banned Books Week has sponsors and events such as city-wide scavenger hunts in order to get the public motivated and involved with learning about banned books and becoming aware of how hard it is to find some of them. Keeping the public informed on books which are in the process of being banned, or which have been banned, allows them to understand that literature which is made to broaden the mind is at risk of being taken away. In an interview given on the condition of anonymity, an employee of a local bookstore noted, “we do it every year because we know it’s important…we make sure it goes front and center.” ( Quail Ridge Books, 2017)
Although fewer books are being banned each year, many are still being challenged at the state and local levels. “ Between 1990 and 2000, there were 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom.” ( Schools and Censorship: Banned Books, 2008) The Office for Intellectual Freedom is responsible for carrying out ALA policies regarding individuals’ free access to libraries and the materials they carry. “ Seventy-one percent of the challenges were to materials in schools or school libraries. Another twenty-four percent were to material in public libraries. Sixty percent of the challenges were brought by parents, fifteen percent by patrons, and nine percent by administrators.” (