Re: [LM_NET] Dewey Decimal System eliminated in new Arizona library.

[Lisa Moellering <lmoell@RICE.EDU>]

I see this is being done in a public library and as they tend to be 
customer driven - this may make sense.  The goal as a public librarian is 
not necessarily to teach the customer - but to give them what they 
want.  School and academic libraries are a different story...

Lisa Moellering
Rice University/Fondren Librarian
Houston, Texas



At 09:51 AM 5/31/2007, Cyndi Phillip wrote:
>Ditto to Liz. I do the same starting with my kindergarteners. They 
>understand that the book has a home and the sticker on the spine is the 
>address of their home. I also put small lables on the shelves in 
>Non-Fiction that inticate what the shelf holds by topic. For example the 
>lable "Snakes" is on the front of the shelf where the snake books are found.
>
>Liz McMahon <lmcmahon@MSAD47.ORG> wrote:  How many times have we gone to a 
>large bookstore to find just one book and
>had to follow a store clerk all over the store trying to find it? Well, it
>could be in ...... or it could be over in .... Many times I've wished
>bookstores had more of a system like a library so you COULD find things
>more easily! Some fantasy novels I have in YA and sometimes in general
>fantasy in a bookstore....go figure! As for Dewey being too difficult to
>learn, who says everyone has to learn it? The analogy I use with my middle
>schoolers is that the Dewey call # is simply the "address" of where the
>book "lives" on the shelf, just like their house has a number on the road
>they live on. That seems to make sense to them. I don't bother to have
>them learn all the Dewey ranges....why? They need to know what the numbers
>mean and how to use them following signs and labels....simply following
>directions. Good luck to the Arizona public library. What are the bets
>that they change at some point in the future?
>
>Anne Oelke on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 9:53 AM
>-0500 wrote:
> >http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0530nodewey0530.html
>
>Liz
>
>Liz McMahon
>Library Media Specialist
>Messalonskee Middle School Library
>33 School Bus Drive
>Oakland, ME 04963
>lmcmahon@msad47.org
>
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