[LM_NET] TAR: re-labeling dewey on catalog and spine labels

[Rebecca Reitz <rreitz@NYSCIENCE.ORG>]

Hi there.

Asking for your advice:

In my new job I have discovered that there are no dewey decimals.?  
Just 551 (not 551.1, 551.2 etc.)? You can imagine how hard it is to  
find a book on the shelf? This will and must be changed.

Here's how I thought we should do it: My 19 year old asst. Alex, will  
take 10 books off the shelf at a time, bring them to the desk, look  
at the verso page for correct dewey number - and modify catalog  
record.  Then print out the labels and re-label them at the desk, and  
then put them back on the shelf.

My 82 year old volunteer, Evelyn, thinks we should print out a page  
(shelf list) with titles and call numbers of the entire collection  
(or a range at a time)? and she (or I) can write the new dewey next  
to each title and then Alex can change them in the computer all at  
once and then print out the labels all at once and take the labels to  
the shelves, rather than handling all the books.? (By the way,
Evelyn is fully capable of assigning correct dewey numbers)

Maybe she's right. What do you think is the best way?

Thank you and Happy Holidays.
Rebecca
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Rebecca Reitz
Senior Manager, Science Technology Library
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368
Phone: 718.699.0005 ext.360, 340
www.nyscience.org
rreitz@nyscience.org




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