[Publib] Good-bye Dewey

[Bruce Bumbalough]

Yes.  DDC does just that * it is just that the general public can't translate 917.64 into Texas travel.   They are used to the look and feel of Barnes and Noble et al.   
 
I am just wondsering how no DDC will fit into dealing with other libraries.   The public cound care less about the label on the speine or the system * just as long as they find what they want or need.   I know I borrow books from academic and other libraries on LC and wonder what the numbers/letters mean.
 
It seems that DDC and LC and the others are some of the things librarians do to make people crazy but are needed for the library to work as it should.
 
Bruce Bumbalough
Reference Librarian
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
 
817-410-3404 or 817-410-3449
bbumbalough@ ci.grapevine.tx.us


>>> Diedre Conkling <diedrec at charter.net> 5/30/2007 2:32 PM >>>

Ok, I am a bit confused.  Doesn't the use of Dewey categorize library items by topic?

Unlike book stores we have to return many items to a shelf location that remains the same over and over.  It seems that some system of labeling makes this easier to do.  So does the library plan on doing any labeling?


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Diedre Conkling
     
  Lincoln County Library District
  P.O. Box 2027, Newport, OR  97365
  Phone & Fax:  541-265-3066
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---- Joe Schallan <jbsphx at cox.net> wrote: 

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The Maricopa County Public Library, which serves those portions of metropolitan Phoenix not served by a city or town library, is opening a new 20,000-square-foot branch library in Gilbert, Arizona, in June. There will be no use of Dewey in the building.  Here's the news article from today's issue of The Arizona Republic:


Gilbert library to be first to drop Dewey Decimal

by Yvonne Wingett
The Arizona Republic
May 30, 2007

When the new Gilbert library opens next month, it will be the first public library in the nation whose entire collection will be categorized without the Dewey Decimal Classification System, Maricopa County librarians say.

Instead, tens of thousands of books in the Perry Branch library will be shelved by topic, similar to the way bookstores arrange books. The demise of the century-old Dewey Decimal system is overdue, county librarians say: It's just too confusing for people to hunt down books using those long strings of numbers and letters . . . .

For the complete text of the article, see

http://tinyurl.com/2ny233




-- Joe Schallan
   Phoenix


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