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FROM: "Marla" <[removed]@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org>
REC'D: 1/12/00, 11:48 AM

Boy, Deb, you brought up a "good one" -- I agree stickers tend to
be too generic, but then if they got too specific some books might
have all sorts of spine stickers.

I "struggle" with suspense vs. thriller vs. spy story, sometimes. I
use suspense stickers rather "heavy handedly" by having that
sticker cover all 3. And how about those pesky "science fantasy"
books? (That may have frittered away somewhat, but publishers
used to write that on the spine where they also write fiction,
romance, etc.)

I'd like "Contemporary Western" and "Old West Western" or
somesuch. And we probably should have a "Oprah Book Club"
sticker, too ;-)! I'm sure there are more -- just don't have them in
hand right now. BYE!

Marla/Great Falls Public Library/Acquisitions
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls, MT 59401-2593
[removed]@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org

FROM: "Karen Traynor" <[removed]@midyork.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 1/12/00, 12:39 PM

Marla wrote:

And we probably should have a "Oprah Book Club"
sticker, too ;

I made up some of my own for our library, because we keep them all together
at the bottom of our new book shelf. It is much easier to point patrons to
the whole collection and say "This is what is in of the Oprah picks, we can
put you on a reserve list for anything that is not there.

The sticker I made is a large "O" with the letters 'prah" written inside.
Think I can copyright it? :-)

Karen Traynor
Sullivan Free Library
519 McDonnell Street
Chittenango, NY 13037

FROM: "Renee Patterson" <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 1/13/00, 1:53 PM

Okay, here's my wish.

I want stickers for books in a series to indicate their order. :)
Mystery series, romance series, westerns - anything that has continuing
characters. I hate to read a book and then find out it's in the middle
of a series. Just a little number sticker, or maybe on the spine label,
or... :)
I spend a good bit of time looking up series information for patrons.
I'd love to make it easier for them as well.


Renee Patterson
_____________________________
High Springs Branch
Alachua County Library District
High Springs, FL
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us

FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 1/13/00, 2:37 PM

Renee,
Regarding your post about series reference questions, you may want to try the
following site - - I've found it to be excellent. Let me know what you think.
<A HREF="http://www.kentlibrary.lib.mi.us/whats_next.htm">http://www.kentlibrary.lib.mi.us/whats_next.htm</A>

Donna

FROM: "Jeanne Linn" <[removed]@libby.org>
REC'D: 1/13/00, 4:33 PM

I know that the stickers would help this problem, but you really should have
"What Next" for you and your patrons if you don't already. It is invaluable
for finding the order of series. Jeanne


-----Original Message-----
From: Renee Patterson <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org' <[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org>
Date: Thursday, January 13, 2000 2:19 PM
Subject: RE: wish list stickers


>
>Okay, here's my wish.
>
>I want stickers for books in a series to indicate their order. :)
>Mystery series, romance series, westerns - anything that has continuing
>characters. I hate to read a book and then find out it's in the middle
>of a series. Just a little number sticker, or maybe on the spine label,
>or... :)
>I spend a good bit of time looking up series information for patrons.
>I'd love to make it easier for them as well.
>
>
>Renee Patterson
>_____________________________
>High Springs Branch
>Alachua County Library District
>High Springs, FL
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us
>
>
>

FROM: "Ridgefield Library Fiction Room" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 1/14/00, 4:34 PM

I rely heavily on BookBrowser rather than What's Next, since I came upon it
first and got used to it. I find it quite satisfactory for mysteries
especially. Also quite good for mysteries (excpet those by long dead
people) are the Detecting Men and Detecting Women books by Willette Heising,
which have series checklists. For science fiction and fantasy, I often need
to go further than BookBrowser and have been spending a lot of time at The
SF Site (www.sfsite.com/home.htm) which has an extensive set of links to
"official" and fan tribute sites. While the format is obviously different
at each of these and it can take some time to find the info, I find almost
all of these have a chronology.

Of course, the most effective and quickest ways to solve this problem are to:
1. Keep a notebook at the desk with chronologies I have created or scrounged
somewhere, alphabetically by author.
2. Create bookmarks listing all the books in a series which patrons can
take away with them. You obviously can't do this for every author, but I
have found it invaluable for many fantasy series like the Xanth books, which
go on and on, and stuff like the Patrick O'Brian books where I can't make
myself memorize more than the first in the series no matter how hard I try....

We could, of course, cover every book with stickers to help us do our jobs,
but then someone will want to find a read-a-like based on some really
obscure characteristic we haven't thought of, and we will be back to square one!


Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Reader's Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
Ridgefield, CT
[removed]@biblio.org

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