[Michlib-l] Shelving Adult Fiction by genre, or not

[TDL Director]

We used to have fiction, mystery, romance, and science fiction.  We merged our mystery and romance first and I wish we had done it differently. I wish we had done it the way we did our later science fiction.  We relabeled the mystery and romance, but when we inter-grated our science fiction we left the spine label to say science fiction but it is shelved in the normal fiction section by author.  That way, patrons did not miss out on other books the author has written but they can still search and find items in the genre if they want.   



Our patrons took the romance merge the hardest but have adjusted and we found that circulation was not affected.



Deanna Riggleman, Director

Tamarack District Library

832 S Lincoln Avenue

Lakeview MI 48850

(989)352-6274



https://tamaracklibrary.org/








---- On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:36:48 -0500 Lisa Craig via Michlib-l <michlib-l at mcls.org> wrote ---



Good Morning,

For a long time we have grouped our Adult Fiction books into several major genre areas: General Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction and Westerns. As genres become blurrier and authors move between genres more freely, we are considering
 combining these genre areas into one large Fiction Area. However, we also believe that many patrons appreciate being able to browse their preferred genre, so enjoy the area as it is configured now.

 

If you have either consolidated fiction or separated it into genres, how did it go for you? In particular, how did your patrons respond?

 

Lisa Craig

Collection Development Specialist

Canton Public Library, Canton MI

734.397.0999 x1253

mailto:craigl at cantonpl.org

 



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