<div dir="ltr">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. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_1379193404182881736__MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The English Dept. and Library here are deep into choice reading.<u></u><u></u></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’ve tossed Dewey. Biographies and memoirs are in a section called LIVES.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">It was about making reading accessible to students.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">363.82 or 979.4 were barriers to access.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 10, 2018 6:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ISLMA-Share] Memoirs<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Autobiography (mostly authors, but sometimes students need autobiographies)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.<wbr>info</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is where I"m confused: I'm looking at the <i>Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification 15</i> book for help with some Dewey questions, and 920 is biography, of course.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">921 is "Philosophers and psychologists" (presumably "biographies of..."<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">922 is "Religious leaders , thinkers & workers"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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! <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<br>
Anita<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.<wbr>info</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_1379193404182881736_m_4590056219705440682_m_3048433531234975"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [ISLMA-Share] Memoirs</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What would you do? Does anyone have their memoirs in 922? Or do you keep it with the dewey number?<br clear="all">
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