nerdy librarian argument: Where to put Harry!

[orangerful]

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (the rehearsal script) will be published on July 31st and cataloging librarians are having fun debating where this book should live (when it eventually gets to a shelf...which might take awhile).

So, gentle readers - what do you think?

The librarian in me is annoyed that it not a prose novel but a script, and feels like it should go into the 800s with the rest of the plays.

Children's Librarian/Youth Librarian in me thinks it would make the browsers life easier if it were on the shelf as a normal book, possibly even fudging the author call number so it lives next to the rest of the series.

The Harry Potter fan in me (which isn't a huge one, my HP fandom is low-key but still) is annoyed that this is not actually written by JK (yeah yeah she "approved" it), is a play, it not really meant for children and is full of emo-Harry and Son and could possibly ruin the entire series and wants to ignore it and therefore wants to hide it in the 800s so no one finds it after the shine wears off in a year.

What do you all think? And I want both sides - I know some of you work in libraries and some of you are normal humans (LOL! NO TRUE YOU ARE MY FRIENDS SO YOU CAN'T BE NORMAL!) but what are your thoughts????????? Where should Harry and his cursed child live?

Comments

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

That's good to know! I was kinda worried about the kids who would want to read it and if they were going to struggle (actually, I shouldn't worry about kids, they can adapt, the adults are the ones that freak out LOL)

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I'm sure people will freak out (I'm still confused by people who didn't know it was a play... that was pretty well publicized and it says it's a script right on the cover...) but honestly they must have written it with book readers in mind because it wasn't a hard play to read at all.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

LOL we've had people who just place holds on ANYTHING Patterson and Grisham and then they are shocked when it is a children's chapter books because they don't really bother to see what the book is about, they just see the name. So, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if all they knew was "HARRY!" and had not delved any further.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

Sometimes humanity makes me sad.

I think that was an issue with The Casual Vacancy. People saw J.K. Rowling and no matter how much all of the promotional material stressed that this was not going to be like Harry Potter at all and there was no magic in it people still read it and then were upset that it wasn't like Harry Potter and there was no magic.

You'd think people who are reading books would read to know what the book was about... but apparently not.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

They don't even read the SIGNS in the library to tell them where the books are. :) Humans are simple creatures at heart, that is for sure.