Banned Books Week returns for its 30th year this week. This annual event brings together librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types in shared support of the freedom to seek and express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. The Ohio Library Council’s Intellectual Freedom Committee has put together a short video for this year’s Banned Books Week.

Demands for certain titles to be removed from libraries is not a thing of the past. Last year, the American Library Association reported 275 instances nationwide in which books were formally challenged to be banned from from a library or from a school curriculum. View the top ten most challenged books of 2015.

Banned Books Weeks runs through Oct. 1, 2016.