[aisle] Graphic Novel Shelving

[Christine Wilson]

All our manga and graphic novels are shelved in the Graphic Novel section
(GN). At this point, we don't have enough nonfiction and biography titles
to separate them out. In daydream, I troubleshoot about when we might have
enough critical mass to make separation make sense, and if we should indeed
do that.

I really like shelving the graphic novels in their respective
fiction/nonfiction/picture books, but after 3 years of that the kids were
still coming in asking for the 'like cartoon' books. There's only one of
me, and I was losing my voice repeating 'find a book you like, and then see
if there's a graphic novel with it'. Over time, I'm teaching more library
organization with the goal of getting them to look up and find what they
want, but it will be awhile...

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 7:32 AM Jill Bennin via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> At the high school we have graphic novels, graphic biographies, and
> graphic nonfiction - we give them all the GB call number for Graphic Book,
> and then do alphabetical by author for fiction, GB B first three of topic
> (so the autobiography of Anne Frank is GB B Fra), and then Graphic
> Nonfiction is GB and the Dewey number.  If we don't have enough to
> separate them in a building we just do fiction and nonfiction - we just
> added biography a couple of years ago at the high school because we were
> seeing more of a need.  I think whatever works for your space and your
> students is the best solution for you!
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 2:09 PM Wagoner, Benjamin via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Colleagues,
>>
>> When shelving your graphic novels, do you separate your fiction and
>> nonfiction books?  We're not sure if we should fully mix them together or
>> have the nonfiction grouped first and then the fiction grouped.  Would
>> anyone care to share how they did it in their library?  Thanks!
>>
>> Ben
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