I'm interested in how this works out, too. I am assuming this is a small branch of the library. Our cookbook section, for one example) takes up an awful lot of real estate - I would hate to be looking for one particular book without a good identifier. I am very curious about how shelving and paging will work. It's great for browsing, but it seems like it will cause difficulties with getting the one book you are actually looking for. Still, if the branch is small enough that their sections aren't any bigger than those at Borders, it may work well for them.
I'm also curious about labeling/classification - it seems like they will still need some sort of system. History books run from 930 to 990 and take up a LOT of space - here at our Central Library, we have almost 12,000 items in the 900s. It seems like someone would have to still assign some sort of classification - Russian history, American history (still an immense section), and so on. I hope they put something up on the Web or publish something so we can get a look at what they are doing!
Sarah Simpson
Technical Services Manager
Tulsa City-County Library
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Prof. Burke's wish list
> Nathan wrote:
> It will be interesting to see if the following incident gives birth to
> others:
>
> http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0530nodewey0530.html
>
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> There are a couple of things here. Firstly, it seems as if this is a public
> library. Išve never worked in a public library, so I canšt comment from that
> side of the counter, but I do use my local public library a lot, and I can
> safely say that the fact the library uses Dewey is completely irrelevant to
> me. The collection is too small to need anything more than a cursory system
> for ordering books on the shelf, and I know the sections I use regularly so
> well I donšt really need a guide.
>
Received on Thu May 31 2007 - 14:07:59 EDT