Mystery? Horror? Action? Suspense? This is certainly true and probably the greatest challenge facing genrefying librarians. What do you do with books that could fall into two or three different genres? A lot of fiction books—arguably, the majority–easily fall into more than one genre. I don’t have a solution for this; it can be […]
Some librarians believe genrefication is just the latest fad. They say that Dewey has been around for 150 years, and it still works. If it ain’t broke… One of my library’s most popular genre sections! Agreed. Dewey definitely does its job well, and I don’t think we should go around changing our library classification system […]
When Dewey created the Dewey Decimal System in 1872, all books, including fiction novels, had a specific location within Dewey. My college library, which used Library of Congress cataloging instead of Dewey, housed all fiction on the fourth floor, in the 800 section where Dewey has placed fiction novels since 1872. And though […]
