Re: [LM_NET] Doing without Dewey?

[Carol Simpson <csimpson@CAROLSIMPSON.COM>]

While we certainly want to provide the maximum amount of relevant 
organization to our patrons, we also want to teach them a transferable 
skill.  If a library decides to go it alone and creates its own idea of 
where materials belong, how transferable will that knowledge be when the 
child goes to the public library, or even to the next school up the 
chain? Will the child be at square one in locating information?  I'm not 
saying that Dewey doesn't need some adjustment after all these years.  
As a professor of cataloging, I always pointed out the biases and 
inconsistencies.  The advantage is that ALL Dewey'd libraries have the 
SAME inconsistencies.  A patron just needs to learn the scheme once.

If you elect to Border your library, will your patrons be able to locate 
materials in the middle or high school library, the public library, or 
for that matter, Barnes & Noble?


-- 
Carol Simpson, JD, Ed.D. Assoc. Prof. (Mod. Serv.) University of North 
Texas School of Library and Information Sciences csimpson at 
carolsimpson dot com

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