Collection Development Policy

The Queer Liberation Library (QLL) strives to build a collection of materials that inspire, celebrate, entertain, and educate queer folks across the US. 

Our fully digital collection of ebooks and audiobooks spans all genres from romance to horror, sci-fi to memoir, and everything in between. While we love queer classics dearly and include a selection in our collection, we prioritize purchasing books from living authors so we can support them in our own small way. Although we are ecstatic to purchase books by out and proud members of the queer community, we do not believe that it is our business or right to know everyone’s identity, therefore we acquire materials based on the queerness of their content not their creator.

We are committed to curating a collection that reflects the diversity of queer lives and imaginations. 

We actively work to ensure BIPOC voices are not just represented, but are core components of our collection. We also know that, historically, some facets of our community are underrepresented. It is a simple fact that more books have been published about cis gay men than aromantics or intersex people, for example. Knowing this, we will actively seek out materials from all parts of the LGBTQ+ community, to resist replicating the historical and ongoing bias within the publishing world.

Libraries and their collections are living organisms.

We cannot, and would hardly presume, to create a collection that is exhaustive or complete. Instead ours will evolve - cycling some books out to make space for new additions. We are also delighted to consider requests from you, our dear patrons, to inform some of our decisions, although we cannot guarantee that every request will result in the purchase of a specific item.

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