Re: Call No. For DVD movies based on printed titles

The AV Librarian wants the "classics" classed in LC, e.g.  the Greek 
film Antigone,  starring- Irene Pappas, was just added to the collection 
last month.  She sent it back for a call number change to PA.  That's 
true of Shakespeare inspired movies, and we collect a lot of Spanish 
films based on literary adaptations (Lazarillo de Tormes, etc.) and 
those get classed along with the original work.    I neglected to 
mention that earlier.  

bob mead-donaldson
florida international university

Jack Hall wrote:
> I wonder about that (not that I doubt your public service people's 
> veracity!!). I don't think most people even know that a particular 
> movie is made from a book,  or from what book, in most cases. Some 
> are from novels (some famous, some not), some from plays, some from 
> original screenplays (and where to class them?), some purport to be 
> based on real life (biopics such as Walk the Line), and I think most 
> patrons just think of nearly all of them as movies and would rather 
>   
>

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