My solution to this problem - and to make it easier for the students - is to
put them in 810.91/Twain/Brown or 820.91/Bronte/Brown for example - this
puts all the critical works together for the same person - the students and
teachers love it.
Allan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Williams" <markwilliams@MAKAW.NET>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Target: Do we Dewey?
> Lynette:
>
> Well, the convention is NOT to use an editor's name as part of the call
> number, so unless all the essays in the volume are written by the same
> person, you would default to the first three letters of the title (NOT the
> series title, so you wouldn't use TWA for every book in the
> series). Thus, 813 MAR would only be correct if all the essays in the
> volume were written by Barry Marks. Let's say for illustration purposes
> that the title from the title page was _John Steinbeck, Voice of the
> Oppressed_, and that it is part of the Twayne's American Authors Series,
> edited by Joe Schlobotnik. Call number would be 813 JOH, since Joe is the
> editor, not the author of all the essays; and the title starts with
'John',
> not 'Twayne's'.
>
> You could also be adding a decimal to the base number if you wished to be
> more precise, based on the dates for the author covered as the subject of
> the book, but that's another can of worms! <G> <sound of can opener>
say,
> 813.52 JOH , since Steinbeck's main body of writing was in the first half
> of the 20th century (hence the .52, instead of the .54 for the latter half
> of the century).
>
> Of course, the base number would vary, depending on the genre of the
> specific writer being covered: playwright only as opposed to novelist
only
> as opposed to poet only as opposed to criticism of mixed genres (i.e. a
> volume of criticism of Gary Soto's novels and poetry).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> At 02:36 PM 3/11/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> >I have Twayne's Authors Series. Half of my collection is processed as
> >(for example) John Steinbeck by Warren French is 813 Ste, while the other
> >half is (for example) E.E. Cummings by Barry A. Marks is 813 Mar. It's
> >almost equal so it's the same amount of work either way I go. Which way
> >should I have them? I'd like them to be uniform.
> >Thanks for your input.
> >lm
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