[Publib] Mixing genres with regular fiction

[Judy Anderson]

Technically, it isn't the Dewey or cataloging that's impacted. It's the 
creation of an item record.

However, you are replacing a little bit of typing with the adding of a 
sticker. And the buying, paying for, and storage of the stickers.

For the record, I did such a merger at my last library. Except for Westerns 
because I was told the "little old men" who read westerns would be very 
upset. My problem was finding labels that were distinct enough to be spotted 
easily. I ended up creating my own. If anyone out there works for a company 
that sells labels, you might consider making genre labels very disinguished. 
The picture isn't as important as the color and words. We only had a couple 
of complaints about the change.

Judy Anderson
Oregon
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>From: "Michael McCulley" <drweb at san.rr.com>
>Reply-To: drweb at san.rr.com
>To: <publib at webjunction.org>
>Subject: RE: [Publib] Mixing genres with regular fiction
>Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:29:43 -0700
>
>
>Interesting discussion.. I wonder, how do libraries then deal with their
>cataloging?
>
>Isn't one of the functional basics of cataloging an item, assigning the 
>CALL
>NUMBER, bascially a shelving locator/location?
>Call number equals where the item is shelved, and how it is labeled.
>
>Let's say a work in science fiction (but crossover mainstream too) is 
>Adams'
>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
>
>Let's say you do copy cataloging; the item comes in as FIC or FICTION.
>
>For separate collections, isn't then local editing done on that record, say
>to create [SCI FI] FIC/ADAMS in the Catalog, and then labels added to the
>item in processing?
>
>For a combined collection, aren't these steps and "changes" to the
>cataloging and handling eliminated?
>
>This isn't about reader access, but another way of seeing how this change
>might change "other things."
>
>Best,
>DrWeb
>
>--
>P. Michael McCulley aka DrWeb
>mailto:drweb at san.rr.com
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