[LM_NET] GEN, MID/SEC: Reorganizing Fiction by Genre

[Deborah Stafford <Deborah_Stafford@COMPUSERVE.COM>]

"Do you teach library skills?  How would you reconcile  the bookstore 
approach to what you are teaching them about being able to find materials
in 
your library and ANY library? Do you really have the time and materials to 
re-organize  the area?  Remember - you will have to re-label or at least
add 
a label to every book - you will have to take  them down and then re-shelve

them, thus re-arranging the entire area - you will have to note the
location 
in your OPAC  so students will be able to search them properly.

Why not just make sure your OPAC has as one of its search strings"genre" - 
you could add it to the notes- thus they can find what they want quickly
and 
you wouldn't have to do all that extra work."

BUT -- after visiting my local public libraries this last summer, as well
as the local "base" library, they 
also shelve fiction by genre. The OPAC tells the user where the book is
shelved with an indication either
in the call number or an otherwise note.

Elementary libraries have for years put a separate "genre" Easy or
Everybody or Picture Books. Some fiction
is in 813, the rest in F.

The "skill" would be in thinking about what terms you want to use in
locating books in the opac, and in reading the record to see
where the item is shelved.

Just my 2 cents worth. I did my library with a separate section for Science
Fiction/Fantasy last year and so far so good.

Deborah J. Stafford
Gen. H.H. Arnold High School
Wiesbaden Germany
now proudly on the web at http://www.wies-hs.eu.dodea.edu
Deborah_Stafford@compuserve.com

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