[Publib] CDs - Cataloging and displaying

[Donald Crews]

I would appreciate knowing how various libraries are cataloging and
displaying their CDs.  By displaying, I mean how they are organized for the
public to find them in open stacks.

Our system uses full ANSCR categories and displays them using all 10,000 of
them (ok, its more like 40, but it seems like 10,000).  The categories are
provided by our supplier and in addition to being much too detailed for our
collection, are frequently incorrect.  I manage a large branch with about
 3000 CD titles.  To further confuse the patrons, the items are Cuttered in
a most peculiar manner IMHO - Soundtracks by composer instead of movie
title, many things by single artist or act are Cuttered under the term
collection (example the soundtrack to the Broadway production of *Hair *is
Cuttered under "Collection" rather than "Hair". . .

My former system was a large metropolitan library which had huge collection
maintained over a large number of branches.  The collection was cataloged
over 7 genres and by accession number.  The Main Library displayed them in
this manner also.  The branches usually applied stickers with the first
letter for artist name or in the case of movies/shows or true collections
(Greatest Hits of 1952, for example) the title.

Any alternative systems or methods would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
Donald I. Crews
Branch Manager
Boone County Public Library
Scheben Branch
8899 US 42
Union, KY  41091
(859) 342-2665
FAX (859) 384-5557
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