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We often have students looking for a biography or memoir, so most of ours are in 920.  My unofficial criteria is that if it is about a famous person or mainly about his/her life, I put it in biography; if it is mainly about a situation (ex. surviving abuse, medical condition, drug addiction, etc.), I lean toward putting it in the relevant Dewey section.  I try to put it where it is most likely to be found.

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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?

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