The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library completed re-shelving books that were moved to the adult section back to the young adult section this week.
ended this week, one month after staff and community members shared their frustrations about moving children’s and young adult books to the adult section for primarily having LGBTQ themes.
Alyx Kim-Yohn, circulation manager at the Madison branch, said the damage has been done because the process “ostracized queer folks and people of color.” Kim-Yohn, who refused to participate in moving the books, shared an internal apology from Cindy Hewitt, the library’s director. There’s no official count on how many children’s and young adult books were moved to the adult section. Community members from the library advocacy groupshared a list of 40 titles that were re-classified, including the books written by Hopkins. Of the 233 titles added to the review late September, 91% had LGBTQ themes. Hewitt said this was not intentional and asked branch managers to look at books with overall themes on sex, gender, and dating.
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