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FROM: "Joanne Herb, Morris County Library" <[removed]@main.morris.org>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 3:31 PM
Our head of collection development just gave me a topic for thought and/or
discussion. We are building an addition to our building. When it's done,
sometime next year, the idea is to combine all the fiction genres into one
large fiction section, differentiating genres by book stickers.
YAs and foreign languages would still be separate.
This has the advantage of getting all an author's fiction in one place
regardless of genre.
We did something similar with biographies a few years ago-- recataloged them
all into appropriate subject areas and slapped biography stickers on them.
Has anyone out there done something like this with fiction? What disadvantages
do you see?
Thanks in advance!
Joanne Herb
Reader Services
Morris County Library
Whippany, NJ
FROM: "J Heuer" <[removed]@itol.com>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 6:23 PM
--
Jeanne Heuer
Brown County Library
Green Bay, WI
[removed]@itol.com
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, Art is knowing which ones
to keep." -anonymous
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>From: "Joanne Herb, Morris County Library" <[removed]@main.morris.org>
>To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>Subject: question about interfiling various fiction genres
>Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2000, 3:37 PM
>
> Hello,
>
> Our head of collection development just gave me a topic for thought and/or
> discussion. We are building an addition to our building. When it's done,
> sometime next year, the idea is to combine all the fiction genres into one
> large fiction section, differentiating genres by book stickers.
>
> YAs and foreign languages would still be separate.
>
> This has the advantage of getting all an author's fiction in one place
> regardless of genre.
>
> We did something similar with biographies a few years ago-- recataloged them
> all into appropriate subject areas and slapped biography stickers on them.
>
> Has anyone out there done something like this with fiction? What disadvantages
> do you see?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Joanne Herb
> Reader Services
> Morris County Library
> Whippany, NJ
>
>
FROM: "Lynda Whitton-Henley" <[removed]@intcomm.net>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 10:44 PM
I started by labeling with Historical Fiction (emphasis on time period, not
romance), Classics, Fantasy. I also added new labaels over MANY faded labels. As
I went through the collection I also did some weeding based on condition and some
went to mending.
On the second run through, I am now using Christian Fiction (often with another
label i.e Historical Fiction{with a man & women in period dress in a semblance of
an embrace}), Native America, Horror, & Short Stories. I'm about half way through
the latter because I am using the "Short Stories for a Short Month" as my display
for the month. They aren't moving like previous displays. Lots of people really
like the Christian Fiction. These are the ones who will read all of Oke's,
Pearth, Pella, G. Morrison, etc.
I didn't find a label that for Historical Romance...but the one we have that I use
lends itself to that interpretation. I wasn't real happy with the Frankenstein
for Horrow, and maybe I should have gotten some ghosts labels. I need to look (we
used about 4 different catalogs) for suspense/thrillers, it really is a never
ending task, there's the psycholical thrillers (Joy Fielder, Mary Willis Walker).
Then there's the war fiction.
One thing for sure, I am really learning my collection and maintaining the weeding
process. One other thing, someone needs to keep an eye for books needing labels
as they are checked in and before going to the shelf.
Probably more than you wanted to read. I run off at the keyboard as well as at
the mouth.
Lynda Whitton-Henley
NW Br. Lib. Corpus Christi, TX
[removed]@intcomm.net
"Joanne Herb, Morris County Library" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Our head of collection development just gave me a topic for thought and/or
> discussion. We are building an addition to our building. When it's done,
> sometime next year, the idea is to combine all the fiction genres into one
> large fiction section, differentiating genres by book stickers.
>
> YAs and foreign languages would still be separate.
>
> This has the advantage of getting all an author's fiction in one place
> regardless of genre.
>
> We did something similar with biographies a few years ago-- recataloged them
> all into appropriate subject areas and slapped biography stickers on them.
>
> Has anyone out there done something like this with fiction? What disadvantages
> do you see?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Joanne Herb
> Reader Services
> Morris County Library
> Whippany, NJ
FROM: "Suzanne O'Gorman" <[removed]@linc.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 8:22 AM
Suzanne O'Gorman
St. Charles Public Library
St. Charles, IL
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From: J Heuer[[removed]@itol.com]
Subject: Re: question about interfiling various fiction genres
This came up at our library along time ago. We were against interfiling
when
our director proposed it and we argued her out of the idea. We have found
that genre readers do not want to look for their books all over the stacks.
Science fiction readers want to read science fiction and if they want to
know if their favorite author writes anything else they ask us or check the
card catalog. One of our branches tried an interfile and the patrons really
disliked it.
FROM: "aaron smith" <[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 9:38 AM
The decades-old solution to the problem was, and remains, cataloging and
classification. Those of us interested in Readers' Advisory continue to
stress to our catalogers the importance of usable subject headings and
annotations for fiction. The implementation of automated keyword
searching which encompasses many MARC fields at once can be a tremendous
assist to readers (and their reference facilitators!)
The current public library ethos of customer service (arguably the
goal of genre segregation) does not imply that we shouldn't remember the
old paradigm of the self-educated library user, and the development of
tools to point such a user to a location in an intergrated collection.
Both approaches retain the interest of the reader as the ultimate goal.
Reflections,
Aaron
Clermont County Public Library, Ohio
FROM: "Kathy Loucks" <[removed]@cml.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 9:45 AM
FROM: "Claudia Livolsi" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 10:35 AM
Claudia Livolsi
Children's Librarian
Monroe Public Library
Monroe, CT
[removed]@biblio.org
FROM: "Theyer Hillary" <[removed]@TORRNET.COM>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 11:13 AM
The key I have found is how the catalog will list the location. In the
library that separated genres, the catalog was very flexible and would list
NEW Fiction, Fiction, NEW Mystery, Mystery, New Science Fiction, Science
Fiction, Short Stories, New Western, Western, and anything else we wanted
including Parenting, Display Area, etc. Patrons new exactly the name of the
section they wanted, the signs were clear, and the labels matched exactly.
At my current library, we interfile all genres, with spine labels for
mystery, western, SF and Fantasy, and YA. The catalog is less flexible, so
to separate them would leave patrons guessing, to a certain extent, which
authors belonged in which section. Authors like Stephen King would cross
over into three places. I walked into this system as established, and we
get no complaints, especially once we explain that if they are not sure
about an authorās location, they can look in two places, New and Regular
Fiction. Thatās it. I also personally believe in serendipity in browsing,
and the amount of extra time it takes someone to browse for mystery labels
is well worth the discovery of a new author.
Hillary Theyer
Torrance Public Library
FROM: "Tom Dillie" <[removed]@wadsworth.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 11:29 AM
Tom Dillie, Adult Services Librarian
Wadsworth Public Library
132 Broad St.
Wadsworth OH 44281
www.wadsworth.lib.oh.us
"Joanne Herb, Morris County Library" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Our head of collection development just gave me a topic for thought and/or
> discussion. We are building an addition to our building. When it's done,
> sometime next year, the idea is to combine all the fiction genres into one
> large fiction section, differentiating genres by book stickers.
>
> YAs and foreign languages would still be separate.
>
> This has the advantage of getting all an author's fiction in one place
> regardless of genre.
>
> We did something similar with biographies a few years ago-- recataloged them
> all into appropriate subject areas and slapped biography stickers on them.
>
> Has anyone out there done something like this with fiction? What disadvantages
> do you see?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Joanne Herb
> Reader Services
> Morris County Library
> Whippany, NJ
FROM: "Deb Warner" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 12:11 PM
FROM: "Diana Tixier Herald" <[removed]@wic.net>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 2:57 PM
--
Happy reading,
Di Herald
[removed]@wic.net see the Genreflecting page at
<A HREF="http://www.mancon.com/genre/">http://www.mancon.com/genre/</A>
Rosenberg's First Law of Reading "Never apologize for your reading
tastes."
FROM: "Jeffrey, Denise" <[removed]@Central.tased.edu.au>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 9:00 PM
We also 'sticker' adventure, historical, horror and humour fiction, family
sagas, short stories (these are shelved with the genre where possible),
thrillers and war fiction but shelve them in the general collection.
We are using a Dynix system which allows for fiction collection codes that
indicate where a title is shelved.
Denise
Denise Jeffrey,
Selection Librarian,
State Library of Tasmania,
91 Murray St.,
Hobart 7000
Phone 61 3 6233 7049
Fax 61 3 62337506
Email [removed]@central.tased.edu.au
<A HREF="http://www.tased.edu.au/library/readalik/index.htm">http://www.tased.edu.au/library/readalik/index.htm</A>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joanne Herb, Morris County Library [[removed]@main.morris.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2000 8:37
> [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
> [removed]@main.morris.org
> Subject: question about interfiling various fiction genres
>
> Hello,
>
> Our head of collection development just gave me a topic for thought and/or
> discussion. We are building an addition to our building. When it's done,
> sometime next year, the idea is to combine all the fiction genres into one
>
> large fiction section, differentiating genres by book stickers.
>
> YAs and foreign languages would still be separate.
>
> This has the advantage of getting all an author's fiction in one place
> regardless of genre.
>
> We did something similar with biographies a few years ago-- recataloged
> them
> all into appropriate subject areas and slapped biography stickers on them.
>
> Has anyone out there done something like this with fiction? What
> disadvantages
> do you see?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Joanne Herb
> Reader Services
> Morris County Library
> Whippany, NJ
>
FROM: "Joanne Herb, Morris County Library" <[removed]@main.morris.org>
REC'D: 2/14/00, 10:23 AM
Thanks again.
Joanne Herb
Reader Services
Morris County Library
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