rara-avis@icomm.ca wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
>> ...while I've never been in one that does. And
I've been in quite
>> a few.
>
>You've never been in a library that had Science
Fiction, Mystery,
>Western, Horror, and/or Romance sections?
Ever?
>
>Maybe it's just my experience, then.
> I've been in both types. I think it has to do with
the size of the
> library more than rather it's rural or urban (some
big city
> libraries have sub-branches all over). Big ones
divide, small ones
> don't.
Not my experience--but as this thread has shown, my
experience is hardly the norm.
> As for categories, though, I've never been in a
library where there
> were western or horror sections. The western
category is probably
> an American thing
Yeah, you're probably right about that. Even up in Chicago,
though, the libraries I worked in--even the urban ones--had
their own Westerns section.
> in Quebec. Maybe out west more. But horror? Are
there libraries
> that have so many horror books that they actually
have their own
> section? I'm boggled.
Yep. And per book they circulate at least as well as
mainstream fiction, in my experience.
jess
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