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We shelve alphabetically by title. However, we shelve TV shows along
with the movies and I plan to ask public service staff what they think
of separating those and maybe foreign films out for separate shelving.
(Though I do think there's a serendipity factor at work for patrons when
everything's shelved together.) I've never been much for shelving by
category or genre, principally because it makes title searches more
difficult--you have to know the genre first. I do like the idea of a
genre listing on the library's catalog or web site--a page where
patrons could go for a nice clean listing of titles under each category.
Hasn't happened here yet but someday . . .
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Peter Cartford
AV Librarian
Johnson County Library
Overland Park, KS
913-495-2496
cartfordp@jocolibrary.org=20
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From: videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu
[mailto:videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Eileen
Simmons
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:05 AM
To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] shelving by genre
This is a question for public libraries:
How do you shelve your feature films? Do you have one long alphabetical
run by title or do you subdivide by genre?
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Thanks,
Eileen Simmons
Everett Public Library
2702 Hoyt Ave.
Everett, WA 98201
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