Re: [LM_NET] TAR: Shelving Manga

[Lisa Hunt <lisa3moon@YAHOO.COM>]

I am slowly coming to better understand this new style and I agree completely with 
Lauri's comments.  One of my daughters (now 22 and still an avid reader of graphics 
and using her public library constantly) has taught me many things about user 
opinions.  She has commented about poor and better records in the catalog due to 
the series nature and multiple titles of these works.  Of course they should be 
shelved with fiction "F" because they are fiction.  The non-fiction graphic titles 
have assigned Dewey numbers.  We catalog content not style.  I am finally building 
a good collection of these in my library and I can't keep them on the shelves.

Lauri Cahoon-Draus <jlacd5@EZ-NET.COM> wrote:  I'm pretty involved in the 
comic/graphic novel community and the way you 
want to do it (also the way I do it) is their preference. They do not 
appreciate the idea of their work being isolated from "real" literature and 
cataloged in a way that is totally different than media of any other type. 
(Of course if it is a factual historical manga or something of that nature, 
it goes under its normal Dewey number.) I don't know why the DDC people 
continue with this type of odd cataloging that does not follow suit with 
virtually any other type of item.

I believe this goes hand in hand along with the recent discussion of 
shelving by AR number. It's not not true solid librarianship. Cataloging 
things by the number of the media they appear in, or the format of their 
content, is just as short-sighted and un-library-like in my mind. We don't 
assign all videos the Dewey number for video technology, for example. We 
catalog the content, not the style. We may assign them a prefix and store 
them separately, because they are difficult to shelve with books, but this 
is not the issue with graphic novels.

I wrote to Follett about this issue last year, as a matter of fact.

Lauri Cahoon-Draus
PK-12 LMS
Suring School
Suring WI
jlacd5@ez-net.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vicki Nelson" 
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Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:31 PM
Subject: [LM_NET] TAR: Shelving Manga


> Hi everyone; hope your year is off to a good start. For those of you that 
> have Manga books, how/where have you decided to shelve them? I've only 
> bought a couple so far, but the response is amazing, and when my budget 
> comes in, I'll be adding more. Kids who have never come in to the library 
> on their own have come by to say they've heard we've got Manga, so it's 
> definitely something I want to encourage.
>
> It's kind of overwhelming making selections because there are so many, but 
> the students have been good to reccomend titles and series that they think 
> will be appropriate. Then I go through reviews and make choices.
>
> But they are coming from Follett, etc. marked 741, and I want them in 
> Fiction. My first thought is just to mark them fiction and shelve under 
> the author rather than making a Manga section. Any advice on your 
> experience would be appreciated.
>
> Vicki Nelson
> nelsonvl@ector-county.k12.tx.us
>
> Vicki Nelson
> Librarian
> Odessa High School
> Ector County ISD
>
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        Lisa Hunt
  School Library Media Specialist, elementary
  National Board Certified Teacher
  Moore, OK
  lisa3moon@yahoo.com 





                        
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