Genreficationizing
How’s that for a new word? I’m creeping to the edge of librarianship and setting up large sections of my fiction by genre (or quasi-genre). Is this part of Library 2.0 or 3.0? So far I have “Chick Lit”. “Guy Stuff”, “Street Lit”, “Big Boys and Girls” (these are those adult fiction boks not expresssly written for YA, but have the YA appeal [or at least some of them do, others i'm not sure why thery're in our library]). I’m trying to decide what section to do next. It’s a slow process, of course, as I’m having to create the new spce and then shift books on the shelving. I’m thinking this won’t be the whole of fiction that gets genre-ized. And then, what’s going to really appeal to the students? This is definitely developig my relationship with the collection, so I think that’s a good thing.
