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What is Genrefication
"Genrefication is organizing a library by subject and genre, more like a bookstore, to enable students to find materials more easily and improve circulation."
The “all at once” approach
"It is possible to label and reorganize into genres all at once. This requires more planning and coordination. The benefit is less disruption to providing library services overall. This is the general approach Follett uses when delivering genre-related services on-site with a project team."
Modify your Titlewave account
"After you’ve decided what portion of your library you want to genrefy, what genres you want to use in your library and how you want to indicate genre in your collection, update your Titlewave account to reflect your genres"
What Genres do you use
"Genres can be unique to an individual school library or a school district. District guidelines usually maintain an overall structure but give individual libraries some flexibility to meet their unique needs."
Define the purpose of genrefying
"To better tie the collection to and support the school curriculum"
Decide how to identify genres in your library automation system
"The capabilities of the automation system you use will influence how you present genre information to students and staff. Since organizing libraries by genre is becoming more popular, new features are being developed to better support genre-organized collections. It is important that the genre information is visible to students/staff on the search results screen. Consult your library automation system vendor for their recommendations on displaying genre information in their system"
Decide how to indicate the genre on the shelves
"Students and staff need to be able to find what they are looking for. It is important to clearly identify the genres on the physical materials. Common approaches include the use of genre labels, colored labeled genres and genre call number prefixes. See the Planning Your Library Space section for more details."
Map the collection to your genres
"After you have defined the genres you will use, map all the books in your collection into the correct genre. Genre mapping the collection is one of the most challenging and time-consuming activities of the project. But it is a critical part of a smooth and successful genre flip project"
Plan and prepare the physical library space
"It is important to plan how you will arrange the new genre sections in your library. Ask yourself this question How do my existing traffic patterns in the library influence my genre locations?"
The “work over time” approach
"This approach requires fewer resources than the all-at-once approach and is typically influenced by funding and available staffing. There are many articles, blogs and videos on the internet from others who have genrefied a library. Following is a general sequence of activity to use as a starting reference."
Weed!
"Starting with a clean house is critical. Flipping a collection to be organized by genre is a lot of work. You don’t want to spend time or money processing books that are severely out-of-date and no longer useful. A good weeding will give you an accurate view of your collection and will help you improve your collection going forward. Weeding can be done well in advance of starting the actual genre flip project"
Workspace
"What space is available to work in? What space is needed? How close is the work space to the books? What is needed in the work space (tables, chairs, network access, air conditioning/heat, lighting)?"