[Publib] How do you catalog manga?

[Meghan Miller Brawley]

Kate,
We just went through this with all our GN/manga. We shortened the dewey
class to 741.5 for all of it (instead of .5973 for US-done comics like
Superman, and .5952 for Japanese manga and .5952something more for Korean
manga, etc., because this is complicated and hard to keep the shelves neat).
Our patrons prefer to find titles by character rather than author (and those
who ONLY read Frank Miller's Batman know the titles and/or can still look
him up in the catalog), so we use the title as the basis for the letter bit
of the call number (we don't Cutter, though). So Batman: Year One is
741.5BAT instead of
741.5973 MIL.

We do put most manga in the YA section, and most GNs -- some are in the
adult collection, though. We're a small library (town of 25,000).

Here's what OCLC says:
http://www.oclc.org/DEWEY/discussion/papers/graphicnovels.htm

HTH,
Meghan
Harker Heights, TX

On Feb 13, 2008 12:58 PM, Kathleen Horan <khoran at mcallen.net> wrote:

>  Dear Fellow Publibers,
>
> My system is undergoing a winnowing of location codes.  Currently, we
> catalog manga only as a Y Series.  This makes it difficult to run a shelf
> list and doesn't adequately describe manga.  We are using Dynix.  How do
> y'all catalog manga and in what area(s) do you shelve it?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
>   -- Kate
>
> Currently reading:
> Eat, Pray, Read by Elizabeth Gilbert
> The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
> Sin by Forugh Farrokhzad
>
> Currently listening to:
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>
>
> Kathleen P. Horan, M.L.S.
> Branch Manager
> Palm View Branch Library
> McAllen, TX
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