People can submit books they think have questionable themes to the library service. The libraries will decide what to do with the books.
is currently the president. Drabinski is an associate professor at Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.
Kassandra Stevens from Shelby County said that she didn’t want to remove books, but she wanted to remove the book display. Matthew Layne, president of the Alabama Library Association, said that libraries should reflect the communities they serve. “When we talk about A.L.A., we are not talking about a sinister cabal,” he said. “We are talking about our parents, our siblings and our neighbors who chose the profession of librarian to serve their communities.”
Jim Vickrey, former president of the University of Montevallo, said that he opposed anything related to book and child banning from the libraries. He told the story of when he was a kid, and he read a biography of Ralph Bunche, which he said encouraged him to think more about the morality of segregation. He also referenced To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, which he said was controversial at the time.
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