A librarian in Akron asked me one question about my banned book display and I rebuilt the whole thing

Robert Campbell · 2026-10-09T00:05:04.469707+00:00

I set up a Banned Books Week table at our library with about 30 titles and felt pretty good about it until Ruth, the reference librarian, asked me who the display was actually for. She pointed out I had zero kids books and nothing by authors of color, so it was really just a shelf of the same classics everyone already agrees on. I pulled 12 titles and swapped in books like And Tango Makes Three and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and checkout went from 4 books that week to 27. If you run a display like this, who is it actually reaching?

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