“In fact, public libraries exist to serve everyone in the community and work very intentionally toward creating diverse collections that reflect the lives of everyone in the community - even those who are in the minority or who are marginalized groups in the community, and that will mean that there are books there that reflect the lives of LGBTQ families and children, and will be available to them.” “What we're really concerned about is this belief that libraries should only serve a certain purpose,” Caldwell-Stone explained. The library association, however, stresses that its latest list only represents a fraction of the books challenged over the last year as about 82 to 97 percent of challenges remain unreported. However, she said, libraries regularly review community complaints against LGBTQ books and “more often than not” find the books to be developmentally and age-appropriate, as well as in line with the library’s collection development policies and leave the books on the shelves. If a book becomes particularly famous, by being blasted on conservative websites or popularized by being turned into a TV show or movie, that can also attract increased attention from people looking to challenge and ban the books.
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