#31: Use stickers responsibly

Many American libraries in areas with large black populations shelve ‘African-American’ titles in their own section, or add some kind of sticker to certain books to make them easier for black patrons to find. If you do this, make sure you’re doing it in a thoughtful way that actually fills a patron need. Books by white authors about black characters are probably not a great choice. Neither is only stickering historical fiction or ‘issue’ books (usually things about slavery/the civil rights movement) and ignoring contemporary black fiction.