As some of you have gathered from some of the posts I've made here, I really enjoyed making displays for the libraries I've worked for. Banned Books week was kind of like Christmas - we started planning Banned Books Weeks displays months out.
The first year that I worked at Kennesaw State University, we were doing a "caution tape" them (common for Banned Books Week) with "graffiti" in the student computer lab. Being relatively new in that position, I hadn't been sure what my role would be in helping with or planning that display, so I sort of followed some of the ideas that had been done the previous year, when we got to actually implementing.
One of the new things I did do that year was to put together some "you can't" reading lists. We printed them out on brightly-colored paper and put them on a table at the entrance to the computer lab. These lists included "You can't write that" (frequently challenged authors), "You can't read that" (frequently challenged classics), and "You can't say that" (books frequently challenged due to language - profanity, racist, and/or sexual language). "You can't read that" was our most popular list, with almost twice as many copies taken as the other two lists combined.
You can see the lists and some of our "graffiti" below.
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