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The Erie County Public Library promotes awareness of banned books, including through exhibits created for the Lake Erie Lit Festival help in September.

Reasons for book challenges range from profanity and sexual content to LGBTQIA+ themes and negative portrayals of industries.

The American Library Association compiles annual lists of the most challenged books in libraries and schools.

Oct. 5-11 is Banned Books Week, a week launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores and schools, according to bannedbooksweek.org.

The week is held annually in the last week of September or first full week of October to highlight values including free and open access to information and the power of the book community from

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