[bksvol-discuss] Re: categories, was Re: Building
- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:13:20 EDT
Bookshare's lumping probably does mirror the lumping in the average
bookstore and the average bookstore's lumping has always irritated me too,
especially
because they lump science fiction and fantasy together too. What kind of
sane person would categorize wizards and scientists and fairies and astronauts
together? In a message dated 9/28/2008 9:49:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Doesn't BookShare's lumping mirror what the average bookstore does do? It
seems to as far as I can tell, but I don't usually brows as I go to the
information counter and ask for what I want.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 9:02 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: categories, was Re: Building
> Hi all,
>
> I do hope that the categories are reexamined and changed for the better.
> I agree that Science Fiction and Fantasy are *not* the same category at
> all. With that said, there are some books that hover over the border
> between the two. The Golden Compass is one, for example. C.S. Lewis
> Science Fiction Trilogy is another. These I can pick off the top of the
> pile. However, when you have vampire books glomped in with James P. Hogan
> and David Weber and Isaac Asimov, or when Christopher Paolini is glumped
> together with Star Wars books, then there's a trouble!
>
> Since we're now up to 41,000 books, we have no business not running
> Bookshare like a library, a public library. We should be following the
> standards for categories from the ALA. 41,000 books is *not* a collection
> in somebody's back room that can be arranged just like the person pleases.
> It needs to be professionally done, frankly. Many of the books that are
> scanned have Library of Congress book numbers.
>
> Now I can certainly understand that renumbering books and so on is
> impossible, but separating vampire books from Space Exploration books is
> definitely something that needs to be done. And yes, historical fiction
> *does* need to be separated from history. Since books are commonly
> separated into fiction and nonfiction categories, we should at the very
> least do this.
>
> Ann P.
>
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