[MinervaCats] Nonfiction Graphic adaptations

[Corinne Henning-Sachs]

"Graphic Novel" is, to my understanding, a term of art that covers both fiction and non-fiction. I realize that this is imprecise, but I'm not sure we're doing our patrons a service by parsing this item type any further. In fact, many, if not most, libraries don't even give them a Dewey. 

This may be a case where usage trumps formal rules.


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Subject: [MinervaCats] Nonfiction Graphic adaptations

Hi All,

apl  , hob  , cmlj , gpl  , jml  , tck  , lpl  , lit  , mca  , opl  ,  
pfl  , pit  , ric  , rkd  , ski  , sos  , soh  , sjc  , wlkj , war  ,  
wpl  , wit  , tcy  , ypl , sca

I have a copy of The 9/11 report : A graphic adaptation by Sid  
Jacobsen and Ernie Colón  [with a foreword by Thomas H. Kean and Lee  
H. Hamilton] ISBN 9780809057382, on b23348549.

The bib is showing a material type of h-Graphic Novel and the subject  
headings are all |vComic books, strips, etc.

Our children's librarian pointed out to me that this is not a graphic  
novel as it is a graphic adaptation of a work of nonfiction "based on  
the final report of the final report of the National Commission on  
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States"-from cover.  It seems that  
it is not a novel in any form so it appears that Graphic Novel is out  
if we stay clear of "novel" in the Graphic Novel format.  It's graphic  
but not a novel.

It does not seem to fit the definition of a comic book- A magazine of  
comic strips-World Book Encyclopedia Dictionary ; A magazine  
containing sequences of comic strips ?usually hyphenated in  
attributive use-Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.  It then seems that  
the subject headings |vComic books, strips, etc. don't really fit  
either.

So, I found a new bib at loc and brought it in b26833414 if anyone  
would like to join me or challenge me for that matter.  I'm open to  
discussion.


Deb

Deborah Buker
Technical Services Librarian
Baxter Memorial Library
71 South Street
Gorham ME 04038
207-839-5031
dbuker at baxter-memorial.lib.me.us





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