Wendy and Lynne makes some really interesting points about unclassified sequences. At the Courtauld we classify everything, from our three different varieties of theses to each individual sequence of a particular bequest. Obviously, a number of these collections are closed access, so the benefits of physical browsing are lost and the space management of the open (i.e. not-closed) collections becomes tricky. This creates huge problems for reclassification, as if we want to update our class-scheme, this means we have to check up to 27 places in the library. As only 80% of our stock is on the catalogue, identifying all the stock at a particular classmark not mentioning actually reclassifying it becomes quite time-consuming. I think in our case, the fact that we have classified to many sequences in the library might be a contributing factor to why so little reclassification has ever taken place. Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
Wendy's approach of classifying the item on the system - in order to get all the benefits of bringing materials together remotely - but using a running number on the shelf makes a lot of sense, and is certainly one for us to consider in the future. It also ties into Heather's thoughts about how powerful the classmark browse facility is (in theory) that she shared with attendees of the reclassification event last week.
Debbie
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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
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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
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