Comics in libraries

Here's a useful webpage about comics and graphic novels for any public librarians that happen to stumble across this page. (Link found, surprisingly enough, on SHUSH, "a website for the conservative librarian".)

One perceptive comment reflects a reality I have observed:

"Bluntly stated, libraries don't buy [comic books] because librarians don't like them."
-- Patrick Jones, Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: A How To Do It Manual, second edition (Neal-Schuman, 1998).

Librarians themselves can be among the most formidable of society's censors. Self-censorship, cloaked as library selection policy, may reflect little more than librarians' biases against certain formats or subject matter.