Classifying manga

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

There seem to be a lot of librarians in the comics blogosphere, but even those of us who are only library users may find something interesting in this journal article on cataloging manga and anime. My family uses inter-library loan a lot, and my chief complaint is that my library system lists every volume separately, without a volume number. So when I type in “Rurouni Kenshin,” I get a list of 20 titles, and I have to click on each one to check the volume number until I find the one I want.
This article suggests a sensible alternative, which is to classify all the volumes in a series under a single heading.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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