Re: Target-> handling biographies

[Melissa Davis <mbdavis@TENET.EDU>]

> catalog and shelve their single and collective biographies. She would like to
> know if there is a definitive way to catalog single biographies - 92 or 921?
> What schedule do you use? HOw do you catalog collective biographies - 920?
> Where are biographies, both single and collective supposed to be shelved? Does
> it really matter? She has taken an undergraduate cataloging course but says

Dewey now shows the 921+ numbers as having been superceded. The
recommended location for biography is now to use the -092 with the
subject the person is known for (ie, baseball player(s) in 796.???092).

Personally, I use a combination of this. Individual biography goes in 92
with the person's last name & the 3 letters of the author:
              92
              WASHINGTON
              KIN
I put collective biography in the subject with -092.
              796.936092
              MANTLE
              DOW

As a result, I have a very small section of 921+ - all of them older
titles whose cataloging pre-dates this decision.
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