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Our goal for this project is to make it easier for WRHS students to find books of interest, allowing them to be more proactive in their choices, and increase the circulation of our fictional titles from the previous year.
Our goal for this project is to make it easier for WRHS students to find books of interest, allowing them to be more proactive in their choices, and increase the circulation of our fictional titles from the previous year.
Re-cataloging and assigning a genre to every print fiction title (Oct & Nov 2019)
Re-cataloging and assigning a genre to every print fiction title (Oct & Nov 2019)
In the next stage of the Genrefication Project, we needed to decide which genre categories we would use. I discussed the project with several faculty members, our middle school librarian, and students. All were asked which genre categories they wished to see the fiction collection sorted into and why. Many of the faculty and the middle school librarian shared the typical genres such as adventure, mystery, fantasy, romance, sports, thriller-suspense, science fiction, realistic fiction, and historical fiction. Interestingly enough, students mentioned these but also added graphic novels, poetry, and provided sub-categories to realistic fiction such as LGBT, mental illness, cancer, broken families, etc. The idea of sub-categories may sound good for students initially, however identifying to that level of detail may alienate those who select these books when they want to stay anonymous as to what they are reading (LaGrande, 2018) . The use of sub-categories is still under consideration.
In the next stage of the Genrefication Project, we needed to decide which genre categories we would use. I discussed the project with several faculty members, our middle school librarian, and students. All were asked which genre categories they wished to see the fiction collection sorted into and why. Many of the faculty and the middle school librarian shared the typical genres such as adventure, mystery, fantasy, romance, sports, thriller-suspense, science fiction, realistic fiction, and historical fiction. Interestingly enough, students mentioned these but also added graphic novels, poetry, and provided sub-categories to realistic fiction such as LGBT, mental illness, cancer, broken families, etc. The idea of sub-categories may sound good for students initially, however identifying to that level of detail may alienate those who select these books when they want to stay anonymous as to what they are reading (LaGrande, 2018) . The use of sub-categories is still under consideration.
In addition to the survey above, I also researched blogs from other Library Media Specialists who have already done this type of project as shown on the reference list on the initial Genrefication Project page. These resources along with input from our patrons helped create the following genre categories that we plan to use during the first phase of this project (Alexandria, 2018):
In addition to the survey above, I also researched blogs from other Library Media Specialists who have already done this type of project as shown on the reference list on the initial Genrefication Project page. These resources along with input from our patrons helped create the following genre categories that we plan to use during the first phase of this project (Alexandria, 2018):
Adventure
Dystopian
Fantasy
Graphic novels
Historical
Horror
Humor
Mystery
Paranormal
Realistic
Romance
Sci-fi
Sports
Suspense
For the most visual impact and to make them easily noticeable, we decided to identify every book in the fiction collection with a genre by placing a pre-printed genre label on the spine of every fiction book. We used the Demco® Silhouette Genre Subject Classification Labels for a clean and readable look. We heavily relied on reader’s advisory websites like Goodreads, Amazon, and our catalog system Follett Destiny and Tidewave that provided clues to figure out which books belonged in which genre (Minton, 2014).
For the most visual impact and to make them easily noticeable, we decided to identify every book in the fiction collection with a genre by placing a pre-printed genre label on the spine of every fiction book. We used the Demco® Silhouette Genre Subject Classification Labels for a clean and readable look. We heavily relied on reader’s advisory websites like Goodreads, Amazon, and our catalog system Follett Destiny and Tidewave that provided clues to figure out which books belonged in which genre (Minton, 2014).
We didn't sort books into their genres at this point. We just returned books back on the shelf with the new colorful spine label (LaGrande, 2018). Yet students were excited to see the books labeled and began to "break the code." All "Sports" books have a light blue colored label with a football helmet, all "Sci-Fi" books have a Kelly green colored label with a martian, all "Adventure" books have a purple label with a pirate, etc.
We didn't sort books into their genres at this point. We just returned books back on the shelf with the new colorful spine label (LaGrande, 2018). Yet students were excited to see the books labeled and began to "break the code." All "Sports" books have a light blue colored label with a football helmet, all "Sci-Fi" books have a Kelly green colored label with a martian, all "Adventure" books have a purple label with a pirate, etc.
We also assigned the genre in the sub-location field of our Follett Destiny system. Students will be able to search fiction books using this sub-location parameter in Follett Destiny and be able to physically locate books in the Library Media Center based on this genre/sub-location.
We also assigned the genre in the sub-location field of our Follett Destiny system. Students will be able to search fiction books using this sub-location parameter in Follett Destiny and be able to physically locate books in the Library Media Center based on this genre/sub-location.
This stage of the project was very time consuming and went well into November, but we knew this would make our work much easier once we were ready to reorganize our shelves.
This stage of the project was very time consuming and went well into November, but we knew this would make our work much easier once we were ready to reorganize our shelves.
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