Re: [LM_NET] Cataloging Fairy/Folktales

["Rosalia Stephanie (21K225)" <SRosalia@NYCBOE.NET>]

Good morning!
I catalog them using the Dewey number (398.2*) and the first three letter of the 
title. Since the stories are retold, it makes more sense for my students to find 
all the versions of Stone Soup shelved together by title than to seek out all the 
retellers' names and then start searching.  I also find that it is just so much 
simpler for them to look for the book: if they want Cinderella, they look 
alphabetically under "C." 

My school is k-8 so when I am doing an alphabetizing lesson with the younger ones 
and extending that skill to how it is important to know alphabetizing in the 
library, having some of their favorite stories in the non-fiction section helps to 
segue into the Dewey lessons.  Our school also participates in regional 
storytelling contests, so this further spirals onto the folktale\fairytale genre 
lessons. The answers I get when asking why fairytales and folktales are in the 
non-fiction section are priceless. I find that having the folk/fairytales in the 
non-fiction section makes the little ones feel grownup and just facilitates the 
older ones' access. When they were shelved in the picture book section, the middles 
wanted no part of them, and the little ones passed them up on the way to Clifford.

Stephanie Rosalia, MLS
Library Media Specialist
PS225K Eileen E. Zaglin School
1075 Oceanview Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11235
(718) 743-9793 -- Phone
(718) 743-7096 -- FAX
srosalia@nycboe.net
skrosalia@aol.com



-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications on behalf of Caronne & Roger
Sent: Tue 8/2/2005 11:52 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Cataloging Fairy/Folktales
 
Dear Rita,

I catalog Fairy/Folktales as picture books, unless it is an anthology or collection 
of fairy/folktales.  In that case I catalog them under Fairy/Folktales.  I do this 
because students are much more apt to check out the picture books then they are to 
check out the same books shelved in the non-fiction section.

Caronne

Caronne Taylor Bloom
Librarian
United Friends School
Quakertown, PA
ctbloom@unitedfriendsschool.org

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