We visited Coutts to hear more about using their services to classify stock as part of a shelf-ready process - we currently send orders to our suppliers with the classmark assigned in house. Again, I think this is going to be a very difficult proposition to sell to some staff, but I hope that we can look at doing a trial at some point to see how it will work in practice. But bearing in mind the tales of others whose reclassification projects have taken years, I do wonder how this will work in practice if books would then start arriving with a different classification number to the ones on the shelf.



Nicky Ransom

Data Quality Manager & Cataloguer

University for the Creative Arts



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Hi, Nicky!



Jennie mentioned that she met you and that your institution was in a similar situation--we must keep in touch as maybe we'll at least be able to help each other out with advice and commiseration if nothing else!



If we do have a central, top-down decision to harmonize classification and to take away classification duties from subject librarians, it's possible it could come with a decision to go with shelf-ready stock that arrives already classified by our supplier. This would be a difficult decision for many of our staff who believe that as a specialist arts institution, we couldn't rely on classification from a general supplier.  I wonder if anyone here has any experience with a switch from in-house classification to shelf-ready and if that affected reclassification projects?



Kate Kluttz

Acquisitions & Metadata Librarian

Library Resources & Systems

University of the Arts London

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Hi Kate,



I met your colleague Jenny at the CIG event last week and we had a chance to exchange notes on the similar situations we face. I think you're right in that this kind of change needs to come from the top, not least because of the politics of the situation. It is such a huge change that it definitely needs the full support of senior management.



Nicky Ransom

University for the Creative Arts



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