If that is the case, having graphics and pictures, shouldn't all picture
books be in that section too? Do they not tell the story equally
through their pictures?
I say treat them like a book! Put them in the most logical section,
where your students will find them.
Ostracizing them to a 741.5 could mean they do not get checked out.
Jean
R. Jean Gustafson
Selah Jr. High
Selah, WA 98942
jeangustafson@selah.k12.wa.us
http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/JHS/Gustafson/Library.cfm
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Toni Koontz
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 12:23 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Graphic novels
They are not in fiction because of their format - drawings, artwork. The
same as we did for the comic books.
I have mine in a separate section "Graphic Materials" and include all:
fiction, non-fiction, etc - all catalogued but with GRA above the call
number and an orange sticker on the top spine.
Toni Koontz
Librarian
St. Charles Preparatory School
Columbus, Ohio
akoontz@cdeducation.org
Carpe Diem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moree, Alicia" <AMoree@FORSYTH.K12.GA.US>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: Graphic novels
>I have also wondered why they are not in fiction...
>
> Alicia G. Moree
> Media Specialist
> West Forsyth High School
> Cumming, GA 30040
> 770-88-3470 ext. 332005
> "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man
who
> can't read them."~Mark Twain~
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: School Library Media & Network Communications
> [mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Pat Wende
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:12 AM
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Graphic novels
>
> Where are librarians putting graphic novels. Most of the books come
pre
> cataloged in the 741.5 category. However, as the number of graphic
> novels grows exponentially, that area of the "non-fiction" section is
> being over run. I predict that history is going to repeat itself and
we
> will eventually be pulling these books and re-cataloging them into the
> fiction. Logically, to the children, they are FICTION. Then why
aren't
> they in the fiction shelves?
>
> Your thoughts please!
>
> Pat Wende
> K-12 Library Media Coordinator
> Horizon Elementary School
> Sun Prairie, WI 53590
> 608-834-7927 or 7922
> pwende@spasd.k12.wi.us
> "What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks
> about education."
> - Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of
> Education
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