Posted in Uncategorized, tagged classification scheme, DVD collection, technical services on August 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Check out the shelves of DVDs, and you’ll see an entirely new arrangement–by call number. We used to put the DVDs in the order in which they’d been received, which meant you had to chase all over the shelves to find our documentaries on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Now you can find them all shelved together, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged classification scheme, reclassing project on August 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After ten years and countless hours of labor by the Access and Technical Services departments, the library bid goodbye to the last of our books classified in the Dewey Decimal system. The entire book collection is now classified in the Library of Congress system–that’s the one with call numbers that start with letters. We celebrated [...]
