rara-avis@icomm.ca wrote:
> > Interesting. I always assumed mysteries were
among the best
> > circulators in libraries. Also, does this mean
the publishers
> > define the library placement, not the
librarians? Mark
> No, publishers have no influence over where a
library places a
> book, except in the definition of the genre that the
book
> represents.
That's a pretty damn big "except." From what I've seen, if a
publisher defines a book's genre, in almost every case the
cataloguers will go along with it.
> Some libraries do shelve by type of genre, but
others (like mine)
> have one long alphabetical arrangement to its
fiction. If a
No offense, but I think your library is in the minority.
(Public, right?) I've never seen a library that didn't break
their collection down by genre.
jess
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