Huntsville-Madison County Public Library responds to collection concerns, pauses relocating books

Huntsville-Madison County Public Library responds to collection concerns, pauses relocating books

This is the latest development following Gov. Kay Ivey's concerns over children's books that she says may contain inappropriate material.

Huntsville library director orders mass relocation of LGBTQ books

Alyx Kim-Yohn was busy attending to their normal duties as circulation manager at the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library system last Monday when their branch manager pulled them and others into a meeting to discuss moving children’s books to the adult section. In that meeting, the branch manager shared with them a spreadsheet of book titles in the library’s catalog, and informed them that the children’s books listed were to be moved into t…