[LM_NET] cataloging memoir

["RISI, MARY" <Mary.Risi@RIVERDELL.ORG>]

Need the wisdom of the crowd:

 

I feel the need to catalog my collection of memoir so that my 8th grade
students can find memoir either through an OPAC search or by separating
the memoir from other biography. The entire 8th grade reads memoir in
September and we spend an inordinate amount of time hunting through the
biography collection to pick out the memoir.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions about how to handle this? I have
considered segregating the memoir collection and adding a visible genre
label of some sort. Students would not be able to search the catalog for
memoir specifically, but would instead browse a segregated memoir
collection. 

 

Any advice from those more experienced and wise would be much
appreciated.

 

Thank you!

 

Mary Kay Risi

Teacher-Librarian

River Dell Middle School

River Edge / Oradell, NJ

201-599-7250 ext. 2290

 

"No instructional shortcut, packaged curriculum, new technology, regimen
of tests, or other variety of magical thinking can (help children become
readers). It is frequent, voluminous book reading that makes readers."

- Nancie Atwell

 


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