Series books question
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
Hi, Within the last year, we created a special section in our children's room for our series. We mainly did it for shelf space and logistics. We have a "series" sign and a poster that lists what series are there. We have the following in it: American Girls (all the fiction titles in the series) Little House Harry Potter Magyk Goosebumps Boxcar Children Redwall American Chillers/Michigan Chillers Series of Unfortunate Events Animorphs and Remnants Matt Christopher sport novels Baby-sitters club hardy boys heartland nancy drew the saddle club warriors/seekers We also house the Graphic Novels in the series section on two shelves w/graphic stickers on them to make them pop. This has very much helped w/kids who dig graphic novels. It is sort of goofy because we don't have the Rick Riordan series there or Gregor the Overlander or 39 clues, etc. We just went through the shelves and grabbed the ones that made sense to us. The kids get it and it didn't take long for the staff and pages to catch on that that is where they are housed. I recommend it and think it has helped. Thanks, Amy Nolan Children's Librarian St. Joseph Public Library ________________________________ From: JEN Jill Reyers <jenjr@llcoop.org> To: michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Sent: Friday, September 6, 2013 10:25 AM Subject: [Michlib-l] Series books question 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
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
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
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