Our library is located in a JCC. Our picture book collection is entirely catalogued by Weine number, without separation of fiction from non-fiction. My experience is that teachers and parents come asking for picture books on Shabbat or Pesach, and I want the Sammy Spider and other fiction books easily accessible in the same spot as the non-fiction books on Shabbat or holiday observance. I am not trained as a children's librarian, but it seems to me that most picture books integrate fictional stories with educational facts about the various topics of Jewish interest in our library.
On the other hand, our young adults collection, which includes early readers as well as more advanced books for teens, is separated into fiction, non-fiction, and biography, just like our adult collection. I felt that young people selecting a book to read on their own need to know whether, for instance, the Holocaust story they are reading is a memoir or a novel. As I said, my MLS education and past experience is not as a children's librarian, but this system seems to work for us. Elizabeth Edelglass Library Director Department of Jewish Education of Greater New Haven 360 Amity Rd, Woodbridge, CT 06525 (203) 387-2424 x330 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
