Reorganization of Children/Adult DVD Collections
Dear Colleagues, We are reorganizing our DVD collections and wonder how you manage it. In the past, we collected award winning, R rated and family themed movies in the Adult Collection and cartoons and animation in the Children's Collection. We have recently broadened our Adult Collection by adding more films with adult themes and are looking to remove the "family oriented movies" to the Children's Collection. Do you mainly look at the ratings and divide your collections into Adults: R and PG13, Teens PG and PG13 and Children: G and PG? Or do you put them all together with proper labeling to guide patrons? Also, do you call your DVD collections anything other than Adult, Teen or Child/Youth? I appreciate your insight and advice. Sincerely, Jaema -- Jaema Berman Director Addison Twp. Public Library 1400 Rochester Rd. Leonard, MI 48367 Phone: 248-628-7180 Fax: 248-628-6109 http://www.addisontwp.michlibrary.org “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~ Francis Bacon
Hi Jaema and all, At my branch of the Capital Area District Libraries, our DVDs are housed in two different areas. In one area, aimed at adults and teens, the movies are divided by genre (Mystery, Informational, Musicals, etc.). We have a separate section of DVDs in the children's area, and that section is divided into "Children's" and "Family." "Children's" is educational DVDs as well as movies that are really aimed at young children. "Family" is feature-length movies, animated or live action, that are aimed mainly at kids but that parents hopefully won't mind watching. As a rule of thumb, G-rated movies go in Children's and PG movies go in Family. Occasionally patrons search for a family movie in the adult/teen area and are surprised not to find it, but overall the system seems to work very well. Hope that's helpful, Emma On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Jaema Berman <jberman@tln.lib.mi.us> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
We are reorganizing our DVD collections and wonder how you manage it. In the past, we collected award winning, R rated and family themed movies in the Adult Collection and cartoons and animation in the Children's Collection. We have recently broadened our Adult Collection by adding more films with adult themes and are looking to remove the "family oriented movies" to the Children's Collection.
Do you mainly look at the ratings and divide your collections into Adults: R and PG13, Teens PG and PG13 and Children: G and PG? Or do you put them all together with proper labeling to guide patrons? Also, do you call your DVD collections anything other than Adult, Teen or Child/Youth? I appreciate your insight and advice.
Sincerely,
Jaema
-- Jaema Berman Director Addison Twp. Public Library 1400 Rochester Rd. Leonard, MI 48367 Phone: 248-628-7180 Fax: 248-628-6109 http://www.addisontwp.michlibrary.org
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~ Francis Bacon
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Jaema, We recently reorganized our DVD collection. We now have them grouped by TV Series, Family, Adult, Non-Fiction and Juvenile. We put spine stickers on them to identify what part of the collection they belong to. Juvenile DVDs include mostly animated shows like Dora, Elmo and Bob the Builder. Full length movies are in the Family section and are G and PG. All PG-13 and R movies are in the Adult section. We found that we had to make a judgment call on non-rated DVDs. Take a look at the "slider" on the main page of our website for a photo of our new Family section. Patty Patty Braden Library Director Romulus Public Library 11121 Wayne Road Romulus, MI 48174 (734) 942-7589 www.romulus.lib.mi.us ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jaema Berman" <jberman@tln.lib.mi.us> To: "michlib-l" <michlib-l@mail.mcls.org> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 5:01:22 PM Subject: [Michlib-l] Reorganization of Children/Adult DVD Collections Dear Colleagues, We are reorganizing our DVD collections and wonder how you manage it. In the past, we collected award winning, R rated and family themed movies in the Adult Collection and cartoons and animation in the Children's Collection. We have recently broadened our Adult Collection by adding more films with adult themes and are looking to remove the "family oriented movies" to the Children's Collection. Do you mainly look at the ratings and divide your collections into Adults: R and PG13, Teens PG and PG13 and Children: G and PG? Or do you put them all together with proper labeling to guide patrons? Also, do you call your DVD collections anything other than Adult, Teen or Child/Youth? I appreciate your insight and advice. Sincerely, Jaema -- Jaema Berman Director Addison Twp. Public Library 1400 Rochester Rd. Leonard, MI 48367 Phone: 248-628-7180 Fax: 248-628-6109 http://www.addisontwp.michlibrary.org “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~ Francis Bacon _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@mcls.org http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l
We have set up collections codes for Adult DVDs and placed spine labels stating the collection and first word of the title or Dewey number on the case. For our Foreign Language films we also place the language on the spine and shelve them according to language. We’ve got collection codes for our Children’s DVDs with the spine label stating the collection but a big single first letter of the title. Our Children’s Teach Me DVDs are labelled by Dewey number. Adult collections: Animation, Business/Career, Classics, Comedy, Community, Computers, Cooking, Documentary, Drama, Exercise, Family, Foreign, Health, History, Home & Garden, Language, Musical, Parenting (house in children’s with Teacher/Parenting books) Science & Nature, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Sports, The Arts, Travel, TV Series and Western. Children’s collections: Animation, Disney, Fairy Tales, Holiday, Preschool, Sesame Street, Sing-a-long, Stories and Teach Me Kathie Brown Coordinator of Automation Services Farmington Community Library Farmington Branch / Farmington Hills Main 248.848.4316 248.553.3228 Fax kathie.brown@farmlib.org<mailto:kathie.brown@farmlib.org> “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ** Marcus Tullius Cicero ** From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org [mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org] On Behalf Of Patricia Braden Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 10:04 AM To: Jaema Berman Cc: michlib-l Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Reorganization of Children/Adult DVD Collections Jaema, We recently reorganized our DVD collection. We now have them grouped by TV Series, Family, Adult, Non-Fiction and Juvenile. We put spine stickers on them to identify what part of the collection they belong to. Juvenile DVDs include mostly animated shows like Dora, Elmo and Bob the Builder. Full length movies are in the Family section and are G and PG. All PG-13 and R movies are in the Adult section. We found that we had to make a judgment call on non-rated DVDs. Take a look at the "slider" on the main page of our website for a photo of our new Family section. Patty Patty Braden Library Director Romulus Public Library<http://www.romulus.lib.mi.us/> 11121 Wayne Road Romulus, MI 48174 (734) 942-7589 www.romulus.lib.mi.us<http://www.romulus.lib.mi.us> [cid:image001.jpg@01D078F8.38B3BBB0] ________________________________ From: "Jaema Berman" <jberman@tln.lib.mi.us<mailto:jberman@tln.lib.mi.us>> To: "michlib-l" <michlib-l@mail.mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l@mail.mcls.org>> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 5:01:22 PM Subject: [Michlib-l] Reorganization of Children/Adult DVD Collections Dear Colleagues, We are reorganizing our DVD collections and wonder how you manage it. In the past, we collected award winning, R rated and family themed movies in the Adult Collection and cartoons and animation in the Children's Collection. We have recently broadened our Adult Collection by adding more films with adult themes and are looking to remove the "family oriented movies" to the Children's Collection. Do you mainly look at the ratings and divide your collections into Adults: R and PG13, Teens PG and PG13 and Children: G and PG? Or do you put them all together with proper labeling to guide patrons? Also, do you call your DVD collections anything other than Adult, Teen or Child/Youth? I appreciate your insight and advice. Sincerely, Jaema -- Jaema Berman Director Addison Twp. Public Library 1400 Rochester Rd. Leonard, MI 48367 Phone: 248-628-7180 Fax: 248-628-6109 http://www.addisontwp.michlibrary.org “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~ Francis Bacon _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@mcls.org<mailto:Michlib-l@mcls.org> http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l
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