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School Library Journal recently published an article about the opinions of librarians regarding street lit. Here's a snippet:

To discover the answers to these questions, we created a short informal survey, which we posted on the YALSA listserv. We also shared our 10-question survey with collection-development online discussion groups and sent it to individual librarians. Within a month, we had received 241 responses from school and public librarians in 35 states. Overall, 49 percent of the respondents worked in urban libraries, 43 percent were in suburban, and eight percent worked in rural areas. A whooping 92.5 percent of respondents offered street lit in their collections.

It would be easy to assume that the 7.5 percent who shunned street lit were from small rural libraries with no interest in the genre. But that's not what we found. In fact, more than 11 percent of the no-street-lit group worked in urban libraries. The number-one reason for not providing street lit? Fifty percent of our respondents said "no patron interest," trailed by "too controversial" and "negative stereotypes," both at a little over 11 percent. But as one librarian from an urban Ohio library wrote of street lit, "Our library director does not allow us to buy it because he feels it is inappropriate for our town.... I am going to try to sneak some in."

What do you think? Should street lit be filed in the young adult sections of libraries? Does it get nonreaders into the library?

Read the entire article.