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Celeste,
Here in Collier County we have a fast growing collection of around 8,000
DVDs and a (slowly shrinking) collection of around 40,000 VHS distributed
about nine branches. Our categories are Comedy, Drama, Horror, Musical,
Sci-Fi, Western, Series, How-To, Children's, Documentary, Travel, and
Educational. We are considering adding an Action/Adventure category, as
well. Spine stickers indicating the appropriate genre are placed on the
materials. Just recently (the last 30 days) we have begun adding this genre
classification to the item record (instead of a standard call number), to
help the customer find the title in its appropriate genre. This system has
generally worked well for us, though we do occasionally get the nit-picking
customer who wants to know why title 'X' is placed in 'Y' category and not
'Z' category. I agree with the potential of the 'Family Entertainment'
category's opening a huge can of worms...I would not use it.
Blane Halliday
Blane Halliday
AV Acquisitions Librarian
Collier County Public Library
2385 Orange Blossom Drive
Naples, Florida 34109
239-593-3511, ext. 45
bhalliday@collier-lib.org
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From: videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu
[mailto:videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu]On Behalf Of Celeste Choate
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 5:27 PM
To: michlib-l@lists.dhal.org; publib@sunsite3.berkeley.edu;
videolib@library.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] video categories
Please excuse the cross-posting.
We have a collection of over 4,500 DVDs and 2,700 videocassettes in our
main library in the adult feature film area. Juvenile and Nonfiction titles
are shelved in their respective departments. At present, the adult feature
films are shelved (separately from each other) in alphabetical order by
title. In response to customer requests, we're considering the following
categories:
Family Entertainment, Art (as in Art/Foreign Language), In Demand Titles,
Action/Adventure
Has anyone separated their video recordings into categories? How well has
it worked? Which categories did you use? How did you let customers/library
staff know where to find them--call number change, stickers on the spine,
etc?
Please reply directly to me and I will summarize for the list.
Thanks!
Celeste Choate
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Celeste B. Choate
Head of Popular Materials
Clinton-Macomb Public Library
40900 Romeo Plank Road
Clinton Township, MI 48038
(586) 226-5051 FAX (586) 226-5058
celeste@cmpl.org
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