[aisle] 811 vs. 808.1

[Monica Caldicott]

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I add 811.4, 811.5, 811.6 to help define when the poetry was published.


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On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 2:30 PM Brooke Fleuette via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Brian's answer is the proper Dewey one for cataloging poetry--using 811
> for all books of poetry is just a decision I made at the local level.
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 2:21 PM Brooke Fleuette <
> fleuettebr at mercerschools.org> wrote:
>
>> We have recently dealt with this in our library.  I decided that the
>> students really didn't care whether the poems were in an anthology, all by
>> one author, or by an author in a different country. For simplicity's sake,
>> we made the call number for all poetry 811 and now they are discovering new
>> books that had been on the shelf the entire time.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 1:47 PM Lala Lala via AISLE <
>> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> We are in the process of weeding and reorganizing our poetry sections.
>>> It seems a mess with the same "type" of poetry in two different places.
>>> Some books are very old in our collection, maybe that's why. But can anyone
>>> weigh in with advice on reorganizing Poetry within the Dewey system?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> Lori
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Brooke Fleuette
>> Mercer County High School Library
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>>
>
>
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> Brooke Fleuette
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