Sigh. From Time:

[Former Wassilla Mayor John] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving “full support” to the mayor. Read more.

Banned Book Week is September 27 - October 4, 2008. American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the American Library Association recently launched a Banned Books Week web site, bannedbooksweek.org. ABFFE also offers a Banned Books Week Handbook. The American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom offers a number of resources on banned books.