[Michlib-l] Cookbooks- Better Browsing?

Mary Hohlbein mhohlbein at petoskeylibrary.org
Wed Sep 24 14:56:52 EDT 2025


Has your library simplified browsing your cookbook section, without ditching dewey??  We have about 400 cookbooks (one row in our library) and I think we'd have better circulation if they were organized differently.  Here's some of the thinking involved... our 2 salad cookbooks live between pizza  and desserts, far away from the general cookbooks, so I'm sure browsing patrons miss them.  Or a Jamie Oliver fan might see 1 cookbook in the general cooking thinking we own 1 Jamie Oliver cookbook, and they're actually more in different section.  So my question to you...have you organized your cookbooks into less categories/sections, if so what are they, and what else have you learned.

Please reply directly to mhohlbein at petoskeylibrary.org<mailto:mhohlbein at petoskeylibrary.org>  I'll share a summary later with anyone who asks.  Thank you!!!


Mary Hohlbein
Petoskey District Library

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