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The Government Documents Department at Tennessee State University is located on the 2nd floor of Brown-Daniel Library

National Book Month

(left: Sheridan, John E. "Hey Fellows!" Your money brings the book we need when we want it : American Library Association, United War Work Campaign, Week of November 11, 1918., poster, 1918; New York, N.Y.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc373/: accessed October 6, 2025), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc373/ )

(right: Norstad, Magnus, Artist. Take Along a Book. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2002720076/>)

Banned Books Week: October 5-11, 2025

Book bans : examining how censorship limits liberty and literature : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, first session, September 12, 2023.

Protecting kids: combating graphic explicit content in school libraries : hearing before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, Secondary Education of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, October 19, 2023.

Book bans and curriculum gag orders : national trends : staff report (2023)

Free speech under attack : hearing before the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, second session.

Other gov docs about books and reading

To Require Certain Libraries to Maintain a Diverse Collection of Books, and for Other Purposes.(Books Save Lives Act) (2023)

The word illuminated : form and function of Qur’anic manuscripts from the seventh to seventeenth centuries (Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2023))

How do we read? Let’s count the ways : comparing digital, audio, and print-only readers. (National Endowment for the Arts, 2020)

Books and the World (Center for the Book viewpoint series; 22) (1988)

Books in my life by Robert B. Downs (Center for the Book viewpoint series; 14.) (1985)

U.S. books abroad: neglected ambassadors (1984)

The state of the book world, 1980 : three talks

The book: a lecture sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, presented at the Library of Congress, October 17, 1979 by Barbara Tuchman

The making of a book; operations that lead to its proper construction, together with useful tables and information. Prepared under the direction of the public printer for use in the several divisions of the Government Printing Office (1909)

The making of a book. Information for the instruction of apprentices in the United States Government printing office together with standard imposition layouts for flat-bed and web processes. Prepared under direction of John Greene, deputy public printer (1933)

Squeaks discovers type! : how print has expanded our universe! (2010) -- a comic book on the history of printing

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