At the BL we also give our closed access stock a running sequence of shelfmarks (e.g. for Humanities and Document supply) with Dewey numbers in the records for online browsing.
However, we arrange our open access stock, by subject, for browsing at the shelf (e.g. Humanities Reference items, and science material.
So, yes, if your customers aren't browsing the shelves, your idea would work.
But whichever approach is taken, there needs to be a consistency of approach across formats, as Lynne rightly points out below,
Gill
British Library
Digital Processing
Boston Spa
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Wendy,
We used to use a running number sequence for our video recordings, but we decided to classify these quite a few years ago. One of the reasons for this was so that people looking for books classified at a particular number would therefore find it easier to locate all types on material on the topic they were interested in.
Lynne
Lynne Dyer
Bibliographic Services Team Manager
Content Management, Planning and Innovation
Library and Learning Services
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I'd be interested to know if anyone out there has given their stock a running sequence of shelfmarks (e.g. a numerical sequence) for the actual books on the shelves. RNIB is considering this for our stock. We have the advantage that our customers don't come into the library to browse the shelves - all we require is a picking location.
Our music collection in particular contains various Dewey editions and it would make life much easier if we only had to amend the catalogue for searching purposes and not the book and its location.
Wendy
Wendy Taylor
Librarian, Bibliographic Services
RNIB National Library Service
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