Do you keep them in 741?
Do you create an entirely separate special spot for them in your library so that students can find them easily?
What is working for you? What are your suggestions?
The Salt Lake County Library system created call numbers YGN for young adult graphic novels and JGN for junior graphic novels. What are your thoughts about special call numbers?
I have put all of my graphic novels in 741.5 and have several areas in the library - Anime/Manga is in one area, comic books are in another, and stories/graphic adaptations are in another. So nice to have room! Every now and then, I display fiction-graphic novel pairs and non-fiction-graphic info pairs on top of the shelves. This works for me. The graphic representation seems to grab my students' attention first.
ReplyDeleteAt first I let them fall where the supplier put them, and most were in 741. But lately I have been looking at them as Fiction stories, and re-cataloging them as Fict. or PP. I dislike specialized categories, it fragments the collection, and makes it more likely that someone will miss something the would like to read. Not to mention the increased work load.
ReplyDeleteAfter running out of room in the fiction area, I moved the graphic novels between the fiction and nonfiction areas. Including top and bottom shelves, they take up 10 shelves. Since they come with the 741.5 label already attached, I see no reason to change the labels.
ReplyDeleteI have been changing fiction from 741 to PB or F and have a "Graphic Novels" sticker I put on the spine. I have been toying with the idea of grouping together like the public library since they are so popular and kids ask for them. I like to put series together too in a labeled basket so that works well.
ReplyDeleteI shelf the ones that are more of the novel form in the 741 section. But the ones that will appeal to the younger students I put in a basket in a section with other frequently checked out interest books.
ReplyDeleteI asked my principal for a book tree rack and that is where I have my graphic novels. The students know where to go for any of the graphic novels both fiction and non-fiction genres. However, I am running out of room and am now trying to decide whether to invest in another tree rack or shelve them somewhere else. I love my tree and will probably get another one. Because they are all in one spot, I can label them either 741.5 or whatever category they fit into. Most are labeled 741.5. I do have some graphic novels/comic books that are housed with my easy readers for beginning readers. They are shelved all together also.
ReplyDeleteI have mine in 741. It seems easier for the kids to find them. Even my little ones know to go to 741 for the graphic novels.
ReplyDeleteI made a "Readbox" (red) that I saw on Pinterest. (As in books you haven't read yet). One shelf is for new books and the other is for graphic novels. I keep whatever call number they came with and just put them there. See http://www.pinterest.com/brambleberrie/readbox/
ReplyDeleteI have them separated out in bins the fiction and non-fiction together. The bins are often empty because they are loved so much.
ReplyDeleteThey are stories, just like any other story book. I label them as F for fiction. I have them on their own shelf though, since they are so popular.
ReplyDeleteAs for those graphic novels that are in non-fiction, like biographies told in graphic novel format, I keep those in their dewey number. Most of them are horrid in any case.
I do mine the same way as Stephanie. If they come with the 741 sticker, they just get filed that way. I don't have time to change them. The kids still seem to find them, no matter how they are filed.
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