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06-05-2002, 05:21 PM
These should be a relatively simple questions, but I am not sure of the answers.
I just built and installed some bookcases that will allow me to move the biography section of my personal library. Now I have a question as to where to put three books. I have been putting the books in that section alphabetical order by the person the biography or autobiography is about which I believe is what libaries do and I feel this will simplify my library's organization.
However, I have a book that is a collection of biographies about lawmen of the Old West. Where do I put it? The first person featured in the book is Wyatt Earp, but by birth he is the third born of the lawmen mentioned following Ranald McKenzie and Billy Breakenridge, yet they come near the back of the book. Earp does have the longest biography in the book.
A related question, I have a book titled Timberline by Gene Fowler. It is sort of the story of the early years of the Denver Post newspaper told via a biography of Harry Tammen and Frederick Bonfils the founders, first owners and first publishers of the that paper. It pretty much reads as a biography of the paper, but for the most part ends when the second of the two owners/publishers die. When referring to the two men, people almost always say "Tammen and Bonfils", but Bonfils was younger, and died first. Or should I just put the book in my history section? Still it is clearly a biography.
Lastly, so far at least, I recently read, Seabisquit: The Biography of a Horse (a delightful book, I might add) and have it in my library too. Is it acceptable to keep a horse biography in the biography section of a library? Yes, the book also gives biographies of two of his jockeys, his trainer, and his owner, but the book is about the horse; written as a biography of the horse.
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I just built and installed some bookcases that will allow me to move the biography section of my personal library. Now I have a question as to where to put three books. I have been putting the books in that section alphabetical order by the person the biography or autobiography is about which I believe is what libaries do and I feel this will simplify my library's organization.
However, I have a book that is a collection of biographies about lawmen of the Old West. Where do I put it? The first person featured in the book is Wyatt Earp, but by birth he is the third born of the lawmen mentioned following Ranald McKenzie and Billy Breakenridge, yet they come near the back of the book. Earp does have the longest biography in the book.
A related question, I have a book titled Timberline by Gene Fowler. It is sort of the story of the early years of the Denver Post newspaper told via a biography of Harry Tammen and Frederick Bonfils the founders, first owners and first publishers of the that paper. It pretty much reads as a biography of the paper, but for the most part ends when the second of the two owners/publishers die. When referring to the two men, people almost always say "Tammen and Bonfils", but Bonfils was younger, and died first. Or should I just put the book in my history section? Still it is clearly a biography.
Lastly, so far at least, I recently read, Seabisquit: The Biography of a Horse (a delightful book, I might add) and have it in my library too. Is it acceptable to keep a horse biography in the biography section of a library? Yes, the book also gives biographies of two of his jockeys, his trainer, and his owner, but the book is about the horse; written as a biography of the horse.
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