Series titles on spine labels?
Hello Everyone, I had a patron mention that it would be nice if we had the series number on the spine label of the adult/young adult fiction books and I started thinking about it. It sounds like a good idea, however, it seems like it would be a lot of work. I discussed it with my director and she wants to know if other libraries do this. Does any library do this? What is the process? How are your labels set up and what information is on it? An alternative that was discussed was to put a list of the series titles attached to the shelf where the books are shelved (on a shelf talker) but this seems like a lot of information to attach to a shelf, especially for the series with more than 10 books. Does anyone do this? Does anyone have something that works better than these two options? I am more than willing to look up series titles for patrons but I thought this might help the patrons who want to do it themselves. Any information that you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Janelle Janelle Martin Head of Fiction Marguerite deAngeli Library Lapeer District Library jmartin@lib.lapeer.org 810-664-6971 ext 3218
Hi -We do series spine labels for our Childrens and Young Adult sections. The labels have the first word of the series on them. We do not put the series number on the labels (or anywhere else on the book). We also have them in a separate section from the "regular" single title fiction books.Samples: For Harry Potter: JSERIES HARRY and For Vampire Chronicles: YASERIESVAMPIRE Our patrons really like it. Catherine McCullough LesTechnical Services SupervisorSterling Heights Public LibrarySterling Heights, MI From: Janelle Martin <jmartin@lib.lapeer.org> To: michlib-l <michlib-l@mail.mcls.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 4:06 PM Subject: [Michlib-l] Series titles on spine labels? Hello Everyone, I had a patron mention that it would be nice if we had the series number on the spine label of the adult/young adult fiction books and I started thinking about it. It sounds like a good idea, however, it seems like it would be a lot of work. I discussed it with my director and she wants to know if other libraries do this. Does any library do this? What is the process? How are your labels set up and what information is on it? An alternative that was discussed was to put a list of the series titles attached to the shelf where the books are shelved (on a shelf talker) but this seems like a lot of information to attach to a shelf, especially for the series with more than 10 books. Does anyone do this? Does anyone have something that works better than these two options? I am more than willing to look up series titles for patrons but I thought this might help the patrons who want to do it themselves. Any information that you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Janelle Janelle Martin Head of Fiction Marguerite deAngeli Library Lapeer District Library jmartin@lib.lapeer.org 810-664-6971 ext 3218 _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@mcls.org http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l
In the children's room we do try to label the spine with the # of the series unless we feel that the number is displayed on the book itself, like Harry Potter for instance. It can be a pain because we sometimes have to pull a series that we didn't number and redo the labels but it is very helpful to the patrons and saves us having to look it up again and again. Amy Nolan Children's Librarian St. Joseph Public Library 269-983-7167 ________________________________ From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org [michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org] on behalf of Catherine Les [cathymcles@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 5:00 PM To: Janelle Martin; michlib-l Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Series titles on spine labels? Hi - We do series spine labels for our Childrens and Young Adult sections. The labels have the first word of the series on them. We do not put the series number on the labels (or anywhere else on the book). We also have them in a separate section from the "regular" single title fiction books. Samples: For Harry Potter: JSERIES HARRY and For Vampire Chronicles: YA SERIES VAMPIRE Our patrons really like it. Catherine McCullough Les Technical Services Supervisor Sterling Heights Public Library Sterling Heights, MI ________________________________ From: Janelle Martin <jmartin@lib.lapeer.org> To: michlib-l <michlib-l@mail.mcls.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 4:06 PM Subject: [Michlib-l] Series titles on spine labels? Hello Everyone, I had a patron mention that it would be nice if we had the series number on the spine label of the adult/young adult fiction books and I started thinking about it. It sounds like a good idea, however, it seems like it would be a lot of work. I discussed it with my director and she wants to know if other libraries do this. Does any library do this? What is the process? How are your labels set up and what information is on it? An alternative that was discussed was to put a list of the series titles attached to the shelf where the books are shelved (on a shelf talker) but this seems like a lot of information to attach to a shelf, especially for the series with more than 10 books. Does anyone do this? Does anyone have something that works better than these two options? I am more than willing to look up series titles for patrons but I thought this might help the patrons who want to do it themselves. Any information that you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Janelle Janelle Martin Head of Fiction Marguerite deAngeli Library Lapeer District Library jmartin@lib.lapeer.org 810-664-6971 ext 3218 _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@mcls.org<mailto:Michlib-l@mcls.org> http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l
Janelle, We have a system in place for our J SERIES - they are in a separate location and the call number is J SERIES (SERIES NAME) - i.e. the Timmy Failure series has a call number J SERIES TIMMY FAILURE with a series sticker above it. We do not put the number on the spine because most of the numbers are visible anyway. When a series is complete we remove the series sticker and place it in the J FIC collection, but keep the series name, in most cases. So when Timmy Failure is complete, the call number will be J FIC TIMMY FAILURE. This has been working great for us so far. Jessica Wilhoite Romulus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janelle Martin" <jmartin@lib.lapeer.org> To: "michlib-l" <michlib-l@mail.mcls.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 4:06:54 PM Subject: [Michlib-l] Series titles on spine labels? Hello Everyone, I had a patron mention that it would be nice if we had the series number on the spine label of the adult/young adult fiction books and I started thinking about it. It sounds like a good idea, however, it seems like it would be a lot of work. I discussed it with my director and she wants to know if other libraries do this. Does any library do this? What is the process? How are your labels set up and what information is on it? An alternative that was discussed was to put a list of the series titles attached to the shelf where the books are shelved (on a shelf talker) but this seems like a lot of information to attach to a shelf, especially for the series with more than 10 books. Does anyone do this? Does anyone have something that works better than these two options? I am more than willing to look up series titles for patrons but I thought this might help the patrons who want to do it themselves. Any information that you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Janelle Janelle Martin Head of Fiction Marguerite deAngeli Library Lapeer District Library jmartin@lib.lapeer.org 810-664-6971 ext 3218 _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@mcls.org http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l -- Jessica Wilhoite Youth Librarian Romulus Public Library 11121 Wayne Rd. Romulus, MI 48174 (734)955-4517
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