Campbell County Library board disbands new adult section

GILLETTE (WNE) — Several months after it was created, the new adult section at the Campbell County Public Library is no more.

At a meeting Monday, the Campbell County Public Library board decided to pull the plug on the section.

“We weighed the pros and cons, (and) our recommendation is to not go down this road any further, but just to disband the new adult section, (and) have everything go into the adult or parenting section,” said board member Sage Bear.

“We’ve got four books over there right now; they can be moved to the adult section,” said John Jackson, library director. “That would be fine.”

The new adult section of the Campbell County Public Library, which was on the first floor next to the magazine section, was designed to be a place where books that were deemed inappropriate for the children’s and young adult sections would be moved. It had two shelves with a total of 12 rows of shelving.

Jackson said the new adult section made things a little tricky when deciding where a book should go in the library.

“(Removing) it simplifies things a bit … so I think it was the right thing to do,” he said Wednesday.

In March, Jackson, under the direction of library board chair Chuck Butler, had moved a couple of dozen books to the new adult section while in the process of reviewing them to decide whether they should go back to their original locations.

This story was published on November 1, 2024.