I shelve youth and teen series inter-filed with other fiction books. If a series is written by a variety of authors (eg. "American Girls" "39 Clues" then I shelve it by title instead of author. Otherwise it's by author.) In deciding whether something belongs with graphic novels (which are shelved in separate sections from fiction in both the youth and teen areas) I consider proportion of narration to captioned dialogue. Thus, the "Big Nate" series finds its way into the graphic novels section for youth, whereas the "Wimpy Kid" and "Captain Underpants" series, despite having plenty of cartoon illustrations, are found in regular fiction because there is a higher proportion of straight text. This system works well for us because of the layout of our shelving (we have small separate sections for graphic novels and larger sections for regular fiction in both our youth and teen areas). Hope this helps. Francine Joy Allen Youth Services Librarian Lincoln Park Public Library 1381 Southfield Rd. Lincoln Park, MI 48146 313-381-0374 http://www.lincoln-park.lib.mi.us/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charli Osborne" <charli.osborne@gmail.com> To: "JEN Jill Reyers" <jenjr@llcoop.org> Cc: michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Sent: Friday, September 6, 2013 2:08:45 PM Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Series books question This is what we do in Oxford for the Teen Area. We pull out any series of books that has four or more books; if there are only three books, they stay in the regular fiction. Spine labels are author's last name and series name, and we place the number of the book on a round green sticker about the spine label. This works because if an author has more than one series - Melody Carlson, I'm looking at you! - then the individual series stay together, in order. If a series has more than one author - Infinity Ring, for example, we just label those with the series name as author so they're all shelved together. Graphic novels are done the same way, except their number labels are orange. Hope this helps! Feel free to contact me if you have any more questions. Charli Charli Osborne Head of Teen Services Oxford Public Library, Oxford, MI 248 628-3034 "You want weapons? We're in a library. Books! Best weapons in the world! This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself." Doctor Who On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:25 AM, JEN Jill Reyers < jenjr@llcoop.org > wrote: I would like to know if anyone has a policy or written rule for what you consider a series and when it is put in a series section. Do you even have a series section for children's books? Are graphic series put in the graphic section or the series section? I'm being overrun by rainbow fairies. Thank you Jill Youth Service Librarian Georgetown Township Public Library _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@lists.mcls.org http://lists.mlcnet.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@lists.mcls.org http://lists.mlcnet.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l