[ISLMA-Share] Memoirs

Thu Jan 11 14:35:13 CST 2018

I may be just old, but the point of the Dewey system was to bring a measure
of standardization to libraries.  Throwing out Dewey and substituting
"Lives" for Biography does nothing to prepare students to use a public
library or a university library, which is presumably what we are helping
kids prepare for.

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> The English Dept. and Library here are deep into choice reading.
>
> I’ve tossed Dewey. Biographies and memoirs are in a section called LIVES.
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> It was about making reading accessible to students.
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> 363.82 or 979.4 were barriers to access.
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> Rebecca Plaza, Library Media Specialist
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> Mundelein High School
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> *From:* islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info [mailto:islma-bounces at list.
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> Library Media Association
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 10, 2018 6:36 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [ISLMA-Share] Memoirs
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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.
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> Here's the format
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> Bio
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> Baseball
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> Jeter
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> Aerospace
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> Art
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> Author
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> Autobiography (mostly authors, but sometimes students need autobiographies)
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> Baseball
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> Basketball
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> Environment
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> First Ladies
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> Football
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> History (not US)
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> Hockey
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> Humanitarians
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> Music
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> Native Americans
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> Presidents
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> Science
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> Soccer
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> Sports (not listed elsewhere)
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> US History
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> Jill Berry
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> Elm School
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> Burr Ridge
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> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 921 is "Philosophers and psychologists"  (presumably "biographies of..."
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> 922 is "Religious leaders , thinkers & workers"
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> 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!
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> Thanks!
> Anita
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> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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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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> *From:* islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info [mailto:islma-bounces at list.
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 10, 2018 1:15 PM
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> *Subject:* [ISLMA-Share] Memoirs
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> Hi all,
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> 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.
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> 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
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> Apple Teacher
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