"Biblioclasm" dramatizes the persistent threat of the suppression of ideas and traces censorship throughout history and close to home.

Including the works of Confucius, Milton and Mandela, "Biblioclasm" celebrates the discovery and preservation of knowledge with items from USC's Special Collections that survived hysteria and outrage incited by the ideas they contain.

The exhibition sets the library’s mission to support the discovery and preservation of knowledge against this ageless urge to censor.

Also on display are drawings by students from the USC School of Architecture—inspired by passages from banned books in the exhibition—dramatizes the potential loss to our cultural heritage had the censors succeeded.

The USC Bookstores are making many of these "banned books" available during the run of the exhibition.