Hello, Safranit: I am looking for thought partners for a potential endeavor in a small synagogue library: to discuss a word-based topical classification system and other struggles of managing a largely self-help, low or no budget library. Is anyone out there already using a non-numerical system that is working?
More details: I would like to simplify (hopefully not complicate) a small synagogue collection of of 5 or 6,000 materials by rethinking the current cataloging and classification system. I'd like to explore a BISAC-like non-numerical topically arranged non-fiction and even consider it for fiction (though I'm skeptical). BISAC is the system which bookstores use. Currently, we use Weine but I like the Elazar arrangement order. Philosophically, it pains me to abandon a numerical system but more and more, patrons and library helpers, especially the younger set, are in a hurry and/or do not understand how to find books or meticulous reshelving. My goals are to make it easier for patrons to find books, to make it easier and faster for me and possibly volunteers to catalog in the future, to clean up bibliographic information, to perhaps more easily do collection management and development, and always, to increase circulation. Thanks! Toby Harris
__ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
