Tag: Oakland Public Library

• Reading Through the Stacks: How Poetry is Classified in Libraries

  September 15, 2022

  Poetry, Reading Through the Stacks

  DDC, libraries, library, library classification, Oakland Public Library, organization, Poetry

  Reading through the Oakland Public Library main branch’s poetry collection, book by book. The way poetry is organized in a library is quite different from fiction. Fiction is often just organized by author’s last name. Some libraries separate (either physically with shelving or using a sticker or some other indicator) different genres, but most of…