Manga and libraries

[hildy89]

Mother objects to manga in library

I can't say I'm terribly surprised by this. I noticed Arlington now has a manga section in the YA department, along with regular graphic novels. Some choose to classify all comics as kids material and others classify all as "comic strips" so you have "Peanuts" next to "Maus".

Then again I grumble all the time about BDaltons splitting their manga so the teen related titles go to YA and the others in the main section. I just wish there was a little "Look here also" note.

Comments

[bentleywg.livejournal.com]

We recently split up the graphic novels at the library. A big chunk of them--maybe half?--moved out of Adult Services and into Young Adult. I don't know what criteria was used to decide what went where.

[sailormac.livejournal.com]

Catching up with stuff posted while I was away . . .

That's my local paper the article was from. Sigh, why did I know someone was going to complain about the manga that have been showing up on the shelves lately?

And, dammit, the *Monmouth* County Library doesn't have Sorceror Hunters! The best thing we got was Inu Yasha!