<< 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. >>
I've never seen a public library (here in Britain) that didnt
have "Quick Choice" shelves for SF, crime, westerns (a
rapidly dying readership), romance, and soemtimes other
categories. But even twenty-odd years ago there were those in
libraries who were opposed to this idea, on the grounds that
it was snobbery: "here's that genre crap, here's the real
books". (I even worked with one guy who thought that the Urdu
books should be intershelved, so as to avoid ghetto-isation).
But Quick Choice always survived for one simple reason
- almost all readers wanted books in certain categories, and
wanted to be able to find them in a hurry, before their lunch
break was up, or before their night shift began, or before
the kids got home from school. High Falutin Theories Nil;
Serving The Community One.
- Mat C
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