TAR: GEN: How to classify graphic novels

[Melissa Davis <mbdavis@TENET.EDU>]

How do you classify your graphic novels? In looking at several catalogs on
the web, some use F (or FIC), some use 741.5, some use a prefix of GN.

My knee-jerk reaction is that
    (1) they will get lost among the F collection (we don't have very many
yet);
    (2) they aren't the same kind of material as what I currently have in
741.5 (examinations of a particular comic's development, not a fictional
story itself);
    (3) and for GN, how easily will the kids be able to locate yet another
prefix. As you can see, I don't have an answer yet. I am leaning toward the
prefix GN, so the call number would look like:
          GN
           F
          MAR
which would allow for some future instance of it _not_ being fiction, say a
graphic version of Texas History.

So, how do you classify yours?

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Melissa Davis                                   Librarian
Splendora Middle School                 phone: 281-689-2853
Splendora, Tx 77372                             fax: 281-689-8445
work: mbdavis@splendora.k12.tx.us               home: mbdavis@tenet.edu

"The fates guide those who go willingly; those who do not, they
drag."  -  Seneca

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