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Faced with this challenge, I'd go the other way. Move the biograhies into
their dewey number. Nobody says, "Boy, I'd like to read a sports
biography." They're just looking for a sports book. (Of course, this is
coming from the person who eventually went Dewey free and put sports
fiction with it too.)

Leah Krippner
Librarian, Harlem High School
I am currently reading *Pacifica* by Kristen Simmons

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Internal debate happening in my head.  I am thinking of putting all my
> memoirs in 922 (next to my biographies in 921 on a separate wall).  My
> concern is that by not putting it into it's dewey subject number that I'll
> be missing kids who want to read books about people's stories from that
> subject.  For example, sports is big concern.  It's the most known and used
> section, so they all know it's 700's.  But if I take the sports memoirs out
> of the 700's and put it in 922, it's one more place for them to look for a
> book they want. Middle schoolers may just give up and not bother looking at
> 922.
>
> What would you do? Does anyone have their memoirs in 922?  Or do you keep
> it with the dewey number?
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Amy Hamernick
> Media Specialist
> Apple Teacher
> Century Jr. High
> @AhamernickCJH
> #CenturyWildcats
>
>
> "If we always do what we've always done,
> we will get what we've always got."
> ~Adam Urbanski~
>
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