[Publib] Re: Classics

[Andy Barnett]

Hit the nail on the head. The goal of a Classics collection is to help 
teens find the thinnest book for their required reading.  To help moms 
so that they can pick out a few for the kid who sent them to the 
library. For the teacher so that items that will be acceptable are easy 
to find.

For the librarian, it is to get some use out of Dickens and the like 
that would languish in the stacks.

I love ours, especially when I can take a parent/teen over and save them 
from having to wander through our (very large shared) catalog, which 
often has a dozen different editions of classic titles.

> I think that if you have such a section, it should be renamed to reflect 
> what it probably is: books on high school reading lists.  Of course, 
> then you'd want to review the high school reading lists to make the 
> collection and the list as close to the same as possible.
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> I see no problem with some copies of a book being in the "classics" 
> section and others being in the fiction section.  Just be sure that the 
> catalog reflects the various locations.
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