[Michlib-l] Series books question

[Francine J. Allen]

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 at gmail.com>
To: "JEN Jill Reyers" <jenjr at llcoop.org>
Cc: michlib-l at 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 




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On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:25 AM, JEN Jill Reyers < jenjr at 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 
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