Thank you to those who have replied to the previous message about the
standard CBC fiction categories. Several people have asked which categories
we are using so these are listed below:
• Adventure
• Crime
• Family sagas
• Fantasy
• General fiction
• Historical novels
• Horror
• Romance
• Science fiction
• Thrillers
• Westerns
The library supplier that CBC currently uses for Adult Fiction adds the
genres to their catalogue records in the 659 tag. These are mapped to the
CBC genres so that fiction arrives shelf-ready.
BDS are also now using a very similar list of codes, which again are easily
mappable to the CBC codes.
Hope this is of interest,
Pauline Thom
Hertfordshire Libraries
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