[CALIBK12] Series placement and organization

[Pilling, George]

Hi Randy
Since I am teaching cataloging this semester at Fresno Pacific, I thought I would answer. The answer is it's really up to you. I tell my students that whenever there are two schools of thought, decide on one and stick with it. This is for situations like biographies of artists - do you put them in biography or in art?
In your case it can also depend on the series. 
In general an encyclopedia has entries mixed together in alphabetical order and would be housed together, while a simple series has subjects in separate volumes and would be housed under those subjects, but there are all kinds of permutations. 
If it is an encyclopedia, keep it together. If it is a series, such as  a set of state books, put them in the appropriate numbers. Be prepared to pull them all out as needed for assignments. 
There are some mixed sets that are sort of like encyclopedias, and this is where you will have to decide. A U.S. history series (such as Masoff's Chronicle of America) that covers different periods in each volume, for example, is something you may want to put together at the beginning of the US history section in 973. Or you may want to house the volume on the civil war in 973.7 - it's up to you. 
Hope this helps - Happy New Year.

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Sent: Thu 1/1/2009 11:15 PM
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Subject: [CALIBK12] Series placement and organization


Happy New Year. I just couldn't sit around. I have been trying to find old posts on organizing and displaying series, but with very limited success. Does anyone have suggestions to share regarding how how and/or where they shelve, display, or organize their book series (non-fiction in particular). In the library I am in, the previous librarian(s) have placed some series together, others mixed together according to countries alphabetically, and still others mixed according to Dewey numbers mixed in with the rest of the collection. Thanks in advance for any ideas to consider.
 
Randy de Jong
Teacher Librarian
South High School
1101 Planz Rd.
Bakersfield, CA 93304
661-831-3680 <mailto:661-831-368rdjong at khsd.k12.ca.us> 
rdjong at khsd.k12.ca.us 
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