Thank you, everyone, for your help on where to put books that might have different
authors although they were created initially by someone else. In my case it was the
Op-Center books by Clancy. Most feel we ought to put them where they will find
them.and in the case of the Clancy books, that seems to be correct.
Following are the responses:
Put Clancy's name in the 100s
100 a Clancy, Tom,
245 a title
b created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik ; written by Jeff Rovin.
700 a Rovin, Jeff.
LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDUI did some checking on this question and looked in AACR2
rev. 2003
edition and found under rule 21.4B1 that the creator should be the main
entry and the writer should be an added entry. I was surprised to find
that out myself and have since changed all of our Op-Center books to
reflect this.
I don't know if it's officially right but I put them with Clancy.
Generally, if I can find a specific author I use that name. If
not, I use the first name I find. Also, Clancy and Pieczenik did write
the first couple of books, and then added others to continue the series.
Makes me wonder what they will come up with next.
The "correct" way is by the actual author. Junior high might be able to
handle it the "right" way, but in my elementary library I fudge a little
and put all the Winnie-the-Pooh books together under Mil for Milne, the
original author, the Curious Georges under Rey, etc. If there is no
"original author", such as with "Barbie books", I will catalog them
together under "Bar".
Since by the time they learn alphabetizing, the system of looking up books
on the computer, and finding books by call numbers, they are pretty much
migrating out of the E section, I find it pointless to be "noble" and do
it "the right way", when all it accomplishes is to make it more difficult
for me, with no aide, to point out to the little ones where the
"such-and-such" books are. If they get the general idea that books that
are "the same thing" (which to them means "Dr. Seuss books, Barbie
books, Magic School Bus books," etc.) usually live together on the shelf,
that's call number lesson enough for kindergartners and first graders.
Exceptions they can learn about at higher levels.
At junior high level, it's probably a judgement call as to whether you
want them to occasionally need to see how rules can sometimes make things
a bit trickier to find, or whether it's more important for the book to be
where it will get the most traffic.
We have that problem with some of our series books that are written by
various authors. We catalog them where our patrons would most likely look
for them on the shelf- by the creator. The author's name can still be
searched in the catalog.
We don't have Tom Clancy in our K-2 library. We "creatively cataloged" Magic
School Bus Chapter books in Cole, for example. Scooby Doo books had 4
authors and went under SCOOBY!
Pat Larson, Media Specialist
McGuire Junior High School
Lakeville, MN
pmlarson@isd194.k12.mn.us
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