Banned books week 2016

Its that time of year again to celebrate our freedom to read. This year instead of just displaying the books I wanted to make the display interactive.

 Poster and bookmarks are from ALA. Lists are from their website found here.


 First I took 6 books that are on the banned/challenged books lists and randomly copied 6-8 pages front and back, plus the cover. I then took these copies and cut them up and shredded them (individually so I could keep the books separate). I then gathered the shredded papers and stuffed them into a jar. We are having a contest to see if patrons can name the books in the jars.

Reference book, so titles can be looked up.

Stickers in the books are left over from summer reading last year.

Lists from years past contain the top 10 banned books for each year. (We posted 10 years).

Classics; Read Return Repeat

Classics can always be found at the library and it is always fun to highlight them.
This is a display I did back in 2013 and decided to redo again this year.

Read Return Repeat with a recycling symbol. 

 Original idea came from a library bag from upstart.

Side view of book display. I used letters cut from the cricket machine in white and glued them onto green arrows. I free handed the guy in the middle and glued it all onto a big green circle.

Display is filled with classic books from all ares of the library.

To make the sign on top I color copied the side picture and shrunk it down. I also added our library pamphlet that lists several of the classics that are available at MPL.

First lines

Each book has the first sentence from a book written on the front. Library patrons must try to guess the book

After they guess they can open the "book" to see the correct answer.