[aisle] High School Genrefication Nonfiction

[Amanda Kuzminski]

I agree with Katie.  Dewey has already taken care of separating the books
by topic.  One thing I have been doing which I find helps create a
"tighter" non-fiction collection is pull the Dewey numbers out to three or
four places to the right of the decimal.  That puts the bears with the
bears, not just in 599 Mammals; puts Holocaust books with Holocaust, not
just mixed in with all the other 940 WWII books, etc.  I've been doing that
slowly over the past few years as I catalogue new books or handle the older
ones.  Otherwise it's too massive a project for just one person.  So far I
really like the precise, purposeful placement of similar topics.


*Amanda Kuzminski*
*Library Media Specialist*
Orland Junior High School
Orland Park, IL
708-364-4214


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On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 1:04 PM Katherine Udstuen via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I think the Dewey Decimal System puts the books into genres on its own..
> Unless you want to shelve it with fiction, I wouldn't bother. We
> gentrified our Fiction section but left our Non-Fiction alone.
>
> Katie Udstuen
> Librarian
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> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 12:27 PM Wagoner, Benjamin via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> We are debating in our district whether or not to genrefy non-fiction.
>> Has anyone done that?  It does seem to already be genrefied, but it if will
>> increase circulation, I'm willing to do it.
>>
>> Thanks!
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