Collection Reflection

Good morning! As we heard towards 2014, I'm thinking about all the posts that I meant to post over the year. Mostly, all the questions that I've wanted to ask and never seemed to find the time to ask. Some of them will come around in 2014, I'm sure. But, for today, the question is about: Short Stories! Where do you put your short stories? When I first started here, we put short stories in the non-fiction number of 808.3. Which was the how to write fiction number. But, it was legacy cataloging, and so the number didn't change. Then, when we switched to putting short stories into the fiction (or genre) area with the rest of the fiction, there was a little consternation about the difficulty of finding  just  short stories. There were ideas of adding a short stories qualifier to the call number so that all the short stories would fall together at the beginning or the end of the fiction run. We didn't do that, but I have been forever curious since that conversation.

The end of the year buying season is in full swing! That means, of course, not much time for doing anything other than spending money.  But.....I think I can carve out a few minutes for some news, don't you? Diversity is NOT narcissism  (I can't believe we're still talking about this....) Another great response here   and here and here GoodReads best books of 2013 . Pick a genre, any grenre! Ebooks for libraries: still a ripoff . (it all turns to bitchiness in the comments...) 25 books that changed the course of history . The "Douglas County Model" gives libraries new e-book leverage . Audible (Amazon) buys the rights to 5,000 titles from the AudioGO catalog. (hmmm) The LA Times reveals their holiday gift books guide.  Weed your library!  Thank you. Speaking of libraries, Fresno, CA has an interesting concept: the 7-11 library 20 things that happen when you're a book nerd. (true facts) Is truth in genre labeling hard to come by th