- being a chicken I had written this before without posting so it is out of order...In this course on school library organization, I hope to learn a variety of possible organizational strategies and to learn the logic behind classifying books in the Dewey decimal system. In particular I find our 900s section to be a bit of a mystery!
General books about a county (Thailand for example) are shelved in the 915 section or in the 959 section . Why? the books seem to contain all the same kinds of information. Was it just a matter of past librarian choice? Could I rearrange them so all the countries are together in their continents instead of two separate places in the 900s? Could I make a special country section with labels and ignore the DDS? In the end I gave up and made a spread sheet with a list of all books on each country with their call numbers to give to grade 6/7 teachers when they came into the library to do country projects.I was a temp. I was already starting to freak out my TA with all my funny ideas. I was let loose with too little supervision I think. Too little training, I know. So I shied away from a few of my more outlandish ideas. (I did get rid of the no longer used vertical files, move teacher resources out of a scary back room into the library itself and start cataloging them as well among other things, and rearrange the fiction section, but some things like weeding and reorganizing the non-fiction seemed a step too far.)The readings that I have done on the Dewey Decimal system makes me think that I would rather keep it than do what some of these libraries are doing:
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Dewey Does it for me...
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