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FROM: "Ng, Janet" <[removed]@QueensLibrary.org>
REC'D: 11/15/99, 8:29 AM

Hi, everyone. I have several questions. I noticed that I
been asking and making comments, but I haven't seen anything posted
on the list. I'm going to try again.
A patron asked me to recommend mystery books where there are animals
involved. Like Lillian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who....
Second question. Recommendation on a patron who liked to read
literary fiction that is similar to Emile Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
Third question. Many YA have been asking for books that have soemthing
to do with loyalty.
Fourth question. Do you think there is a cross over between adventure
and mystery and mystery and suspense. Should there be a separate
section for mystery, a separate section for adventure and a separate
section for suspense?
One Comment: The books into movies is a great display. Some libraries
in Queens have it. They circulate well.
One question: shouldn't there be a display for books into t.v. shows.
I could only think of Buffy, Dawson's Creeks and party of five. If
anyone could provide me more tv show into books, I would appreciate it.
Answering all the questions I asked would be a great help. I really
would appreciate it.
Janet Ng
Queens Borough Public Library

FROM: "Robin Bradford" <[removed]@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
REC'D: 11/15/99, 9:13 AM

Well, for books into tv shows, I can think of Star Trek books (I think
each series has a corresponding series of books) as well as Babylon 5.
Murder She Wrote also has a series of books, if I'm not mistaken. I seem
to remember that from the brief time I worked in a bookstore.

Robin Bradford
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ng, Janet wrote:

> Hi, everyone. I have several questions. I noticed that I
> been asking and making comments, but I haven't seen anything posted
> on the list. I'm going to try again.
> A patron asked me to recommend mystery books where there are animals
> involved. Like Lillian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who....
> Second question. Recommendation on a patron who liked to read
> literary fiction that is similar to Emile Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
> Third question. Many YA have been asking for books that have soemthing
> to do with loyalty.
> Fourth question. Do you think there is a cross over between adventure
> and mystery and mystery and suspense. Should there be a separate
> section for mystery, a separate section for adventure and a separate
> section for suspense?
> One Comment: The books into movies is a great display. Some libraries
> in Queens have it. They circulate well.
> One question: shouldn't there be a display for books into t.v. shows.
> I could only think of Buffy, Dawson's Creeks and party of five. If
> anyone could provide me more tv show into books, I would appreciate it.
> Answering all the questions I asked would be a great help. I really
> would appreciate it.
> Janet Ng
> Queens Borough Public Library
>

FROM: "Sherrie Heep" <[removed]@cooklib.org>
REC'D: 11/15/99, 9:25 AM

Okay, I will try to answer some of your questions. I hope this helps you.
1) there are tons of mystery books with animals, here are just
a few of the authors to check into: Lydia Adamson, Rita
Mae Brown, Carole Nelson Douglas, Julie Smith, Dick
Francis, and Susan Conant. This is just a start, there are
many more.
2) for a patron who likes literary fiction, send them to the
classics
section of the library or ask for more info, as even
literary
fiction comes in many genres and styles. But with the
reference to Wuthering Heights, my first suggestion would
be Jane Eyre or something along those lines
3) I personally think it would be difficult to draw a line between
mystery, adventure and suspense as these topics often
are combined within many of the same books. I think you
would be hard pressed to split these into different sections
without a lot of overlap and duplication.
That's about all for me. I hope you get answers to the rest of your
questions and more details for the ones I answered. The Internet is a great
resource for several of your questions--you may want to do some research
there yourself to get more details. Good luck!
Sherrie Heep
Readers' Services
Cook Memorial Library
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ng, Janet [[removed]@QueensLibrary.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 8:30 AM
> [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org'
> Cc: Ng, Janet
> Subject: Several questions!
>
> Hi, everyone. I have several questions. I noticed that I
> been asking and making comments, but I haven't seen anything posted
> on the list. I'm going to try again.
> A patron asked me to recommend mystery books where there are animals
> involved. Like Lillian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who....
> Second question. Recommendation on a patron who liked to read
> literary fiction that is similar to Emile Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
> Third question. Many YA have been asking for books that have soemthing
> to do with loyalty.
> Fourth question. Do you think there is a cross over between adventure
> and mystery and mystery and suspense. Should there be a separate
> section for mystery, a separate section for adventure and a separate
> section for suspense?
> One Comment: The books into movies is a great display. Some libraries
> in Queens have it. They circulate well.
> One question: shouldn't there be a display for books into t.v. shows.
> I could only think of Buffy, Dawson's Creeks and party of five. If
> anyone could provide me more tv show into books, I would appreciate it.
> Answering all the questions I asked would be a great help. I really
> would appreciate it.
> Janet Ng
> Queens Borough Public Library

FROM: "Roberta S. Johnson" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 11/15/99, 3:06 PM

Hi Janet,

> A patron asked me to recommend mystery books where there are animals
> involved. Like Lillian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who....

You might consider doing up a bookmark of these authors, as animal mysteries are
very, very popular. Some reference books that you may have in your library are
Detecting Men and What Mystery Do I Read Next, which have "animals" and "animal
traininers" and "veterinarians" in their indexes. The Fiction_L web page has a Pet
Lovers' Mysteries booklist at <A HREF="http://www.webrary.org/rs/FLbklist7.html#Animal">http://www.webrary.org/rs/FLbklist7.html#Animal</A>.

> Third question. Many YA have been asking for books that have soemthing
> to do with loyalty.

If you have access to What Do Young Adults Read Next, they have very good subject
indexes too. Looking at the YA reading I've been doing, it seems that everything has a
bit to do with loyalty: to an ideal, to a friend, a club. NoveList suggested these titles,
but I haven't read any of them and can't comment:

Aaron, Chester : Lackawanna (1986)
Bradshaw, Gillian : Beyond the North Wind (1993)
Bridgers, Sue Ellen : Keeping Christina (1993)
Cleaver, Vera : The Kissimmee Kid (1981)
Clements, Bruce : Coming about (1984)
Collier, James Lincoln : My brother Sam is dead (1974)
Cross, Gillian : A map of nowhere (1989)
French, Michael : Split image (1990)
Griffin, Adele : Sons of Liberty (1997)
Lasky, Kathryn : Memoirs of a bookbat (1994)
Reaver, Chap : Bill (1994)
Sachs, Marilyn : Class pictures (1980)
VanKirk, Eileen : A promise to keep (1990)

> Fourth question. Do you think there is a cross over between adventure
> and mystery and mystery and suspense. Should there be a separate
> section for mystery, a separate section for adventure and a separate
> section for suspense?

My personal feeling is that this is a lot of effort that *may* please your patrons if you
have an enormous fiction collection. They may be happier just looking in mystery for
what they really enjoy, and avaoiding all the romantic suspense, etc. but what if what
you think is mystery doesn't match their expectations? for the amount of energy
spent dividing the collections, you could also create a series of bibliographies and
bookmarks giving patrons authors in each genre or subgenre.

Best,

Roberta


Roberta S. Johnson
Adult Services Librarian
Des Plaines Public Library
[removed]@nslsilus.org
Opinions my own.

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