Hi everyone!
Hope you can help me figure out what to do with two new series of books, Solo Leveling and The Lady and Her Butler.
I was going to put manga spine labels on them and shelve them in manga, but my students pointed out that these series are actually manhwa, not manga. They said that since manhwa is typically in full-color and read left-to-right, it shouldn't be classified as manga which is traditionally black-and-white and read right-to-left.
They suggested having AI make a manhwa spine label (since Demco doesn't sell them) and shelving the books near, but not in, the manga section. Other students thought it would be easier to put graphic novel labels on them and classify them as graphic novels. I also just learned that some manga might actually be manhua, which is also typically in full-color and read left-to-right. Ahhhh!!!! What to do?
For those of you who have a manga section in your library, do you also shelve manhwa (South Korean) and manhua (
Chinese / Taiwanese / Hong Kong) with the manga? Did you make another spine label for them, or just use the manga label?
Marisa TassinariSchool Librarian
East Windsor High School
76 South Main Street
East Windsor, CT 06088
(860) 623-3361 x.7326
