The pressure to limit public access to books is an issue education boards and library trustees encounter regularly.
Some books are ordered off the shelves while others are quietly removed from school reading lists.
To keep up awareness and to focus public attention on the vital issue of intellectual freedom, local libraries are celebrating Freedom to Read Week, February 20-26.
“Freedom to read can never be taken for granted,” says Timothy Skye, Library Manager at the Campbell River and area branches of the Vancouver Island Regional Library.