How To: Organize Your Bookstore or Library

We have created a partnership with the American Booksellers Association to encourage participation by bookstores in Genocide Prevention Month. (The ABA is the trade association for independent bookstores – learn more about them and find member booksellers here.)

As part of this partnership, the ABA has encouraged members to to create an educational table of books about genocide using GPM and the ABA's list of notable books about genocide: "Books of Conscience." Doesn't include your favorite? More books are listed here, and you can contact us with any further suggestions.

Help us by asking your bookseller to participate!

1. Print GPM's tabletop card on an 8 x 11 sheet of white paper or card stock
2. Frame it, tape it to a frame, or tape it to the front of a folder
   OR--Contact us and we'll send you a free organizing kit, including how to guides, the Books of Conscience list, and a sign as seen on the "Books of Conscience" table below
3. Take the sign and the "Books of Conscience" list to your local bookstore, library, school library, university library, Barnes and Noble, or Borders
4. Ask the store or library to adopt Genocide Prevention Month for April by setting up a display table of bestselling books about genocide

A display table can highlight "Books of Conscience" and other books about genocide.

Click here to find an ABA Bookseller near you. To purchase "Books of Conscience", click on the titles in the .pdf document above or visit www.indiebound.org.

Want to do more? Ask the book store or library to stage an event with you. We recommend:

Ceremonies. To commemorate Genocide Prevention Month, invite local genocide survivors to read from works about genocide and ask for a moment of silence for the people of Darfur and other places where there are mass atrocity crimes.

Panels. Invite local Darfur experts and/or other survivors to talk about genocide. Invite a local professor to talk about a particular book or genocide.

Readings. Ask prominent people in the community to read passages from books about genocide.

Read our organizing guides for step-by-step instructions on how to plan and execute your event. Don't forget to add your event to our calendar so we can alert anti-genocide activists in your area to attend.