[ISLMA-Share] Memoirs

Thu Jan 11 12:50:26 CST 2018

The English Dept. and Library here are deep into choice reading.
I’ve tossed Dewey. Biographies and memoirs are in a section called LIVES.
It was about making reading accessible to students.
363.82 or 979.4 were barriers to access.

Rebecca Plaza, Library Media Specialist
Mundelein High School
@MHSMediaCenter

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I genrified biographies last year and it has done what we wanted. Our biographies have always been popular, but now students are reading about people they wouldn't have know to ask for.

Here's the format
Bio
Baseball
Jeter

Aerospace
Art
Author
Autobiography (mostly authors, but sometimes students need autobiographies)
Baseball
Basketball
Environment
First Ladies
Football
History (not US)
Hockey
Humanitarians
Music
Native Americans
Presidents
Science
Soccer
Sports (not listed elsewhere)
US History

Jill Berry
Elm School
Burr Ridge

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
I'm in the process of pulling out biographies (ours have been shelved in with nonfiction) and integrating memoirs, so this was a spot-on question for me.
Here is where I"m confused: I'm looking at the Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification 15 book for help with some Dewey questions, and 920 is biography, of course.

921 is "Philosophers and psychologists"  (presumably "biographies of..."
922 is "Religious leaders , thinkers & workers"

Why are all my biographies classified as 921?  And what would be the thought process behind putting memoirs at 922?  (This is a genuine follow up question, not a criticism of your question, Amy! :) ).  Am I missing or misunderstanding something in the Dewey guide?  Ultimately I may just label them Biography & Memoir, but now I"m curious about this.  Some input from someone who knows more about cataloging than I do would be appreciated!

Thanks!
Anita

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
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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Sincerely,
Amy Hamernick
Media Specialist
Apple Teacher
Century Jr. High
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"If we always do what we've always done,
we will get what we've always got."
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