Cataloguing

There is a debate among librarians about how to catalog comics & graphic novels. Do we interfile by subject or do we group them in 741.5? You must make the decision based on how you think it will best serve your clients. How will your students best find the materials they are seeking?

The world's largest library consortium, (OCLC) Online Computer Library Center's
Draft schedule 741.5 Cartoons, caricatures, comics, graphic novels, fotonovelas is available for testing. Please send comments and suggestions by March 31/05.

There is also a brief supplement to "Draft Schedule 741.5 Cartoons, caricatures, comics, graphic novels, fotonovelas available for testing." It includes a modification to the original proposal in response to user feedback received to date. Please see "Supplement to Draft schedule741.5" Please send comments and suggestions by March 31, 2005

Personally, I'm leaning towards grouping all our graphic novels by format. "As a consumer, I like being able to browse graphic novels in their own distinct section. I suppose this is because a graphic novel is a slightly different experience than reading prose, and I decide on what format I want to read depending on what seems appealing at the moment. For the same reason, I sometimes want to read a magazine instead of a book. It wouldn't make sense to look for Newsweek among the current affairs books, or Vogue among the fashion and art books -- I'm glad they're categorized in a magazine section. (Morishima, 2004)

BWI Titletales has many online marc records for the titles they sell.

MARC = MAchine-Readable Cataloging

Reference:
Morishima, Janna. "Shelving thoughts spurred by Traditional Lib journals... ." Online posting. 28 Oct 2004. GNLib. 07
Dec 2004. <http://lists.topica.com/lists/GNLIB-L/read/message.html?mid=910987578&sort=d&start=13012>.

Posted by Janice Biebrich

Last Updated March 8/05

Our library (Pasadena Public) has a catalog that permits MARC display. It is
an option in the lower left of the page once you get the item.
Go to: http://cityofpasadena.net/library/ and click on the purple button
that says Library Catalog. I would recommend choosing the Browse option
rather than Quick Keyword if you know the exact title, but Keyword is good
if you don't have the exact title.

There are of course other libraries that make MARC records available on
their catalogs- here are some that I use for Graphic Novels:

County of Los Angeles Public Library Catalog
Dallas Public Library Catalog
San Diego Public Library E-desk
Queens Library Online Catalog

A great place to go is other library web pages that have teen pages.
Here are two web sites I use (that have MARC records you can print off)
http://www.hclib.org/teens/ Hennepin County
http://www.icpl.org/teens/ Iowa City