Monissa, you're going to make a fine library technician! You're thinking like a cataloguer already. Wait till you study the finer points of Dewey! :-) Mind you, as a school librarian, I often have to think crabwise. For example, I will sometimes put non-fiction on the fiction shelves if I think the kids are more likely to find it there - such as the It's True! series in which I had a book, because it's the sort of thing kids are likely to read by the series rather than the subject. And I'm about to get all the Girlfriend Fiction books out from under the author names and put them together because the girls are always asking for Girlfriend Fiction books rather than the latest Lili Wilkinson or Rowena Mohr. Some library folk would disagree, but in my opinion it's better to put the books where the readers can find them. I remember when the new head honcho at my local library split up the genre collections and put the fiction all under author. I'm a librarian myself and even *I* couldn't be bothered looking in the catalogue for SF or crime fiction and having to hunt them up by author instead of browsing. I wrote her a letter about it and she rang me at work and ARGUED with me for 45 minutes! Thank ghu she's long gone. The SF books, at least, are back where they belong.
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Date: 2010-02-20 11:44 am (UTC)