[Publib] Dewey or Don't We

[Julie Bauer]

All the time I've been reading these posts I've been thinking how I wish supermarkets had catalogs.  The organization system often baffles me.  Why is the tomato sauce located aisles away from the tomato paste?  Are tacos really "ethnic food" anymore?  If so, then why not spaghetti?  Why is hamburger not cohabiting with the other beef?

My husband does the food shopping now for the sake of my blood pressure.

Julie Bauer
Loudoun County Public Library
Leesburg, Virginia

My opinions are complete nonsense and do not reflect those of anyone else, least of all my employer.




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From: South Berwick Public Library <mmaney at south-berwick.lib.me.us>
To: publib at webjunction.org
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 5:22:37 PM
Subject: RE: [Publib] Dewey or Don't We

 
It’s all about the signage!  I was in a large grocery
store last week.  They had the usual signs hanging from the ceiling. I
couldn’t find the cereal aisle as it wasn’t listed on any of the
signs.  Duh! Um, isn’t cereal one of the most common things to buy?  I
dislike the store to begin with and use it only when there is a specialty item
that I need because it is such an unfriendly place.  I, too, have not had
much success with the bookstore classification system and that was long before
I became a librarian and worked with DDC, which I never had to learn in school
(since we didn’t have a library until I was in the 8th grade
and we never used the library in high school). Borders has fiction classified
as literature.  I bet a lot of people think of literature as classics and
just want to find fiction.
 
MHO.
Mamie
 
Mamie Anthoine Ney
Director
South Berwick Public Library
37 Portland Street
P.O. Box 35
South Berwick, ME 03908-003
207-384-3308 (incl. fax)
south-berwick.lib.me.us
mmaney at south-berwick.lib.me.us
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