Yeah, I get your point on that Christine. Agreed. We keep ours in a case
back where the mushrooms grow, so we don't have them on open shelves at all.
But for Matt and others who have them on the shelves, I can see the
sense of having them integrated. But I would still want to see Peckinpah
with Peckinpah, so that the movies were also side by side with criticism
and so forth, similar to literature. Integrated by topic, subject,
rather than by format. Rather than finding a Peckinpah movie in a
feature films by title (PN1997 .B for Ballad, etc.) < this gets to
Matt's question about Cuttering by author or title.
Regarding discovery by chance, I must say, rather than a nightmare,
browsing by accession numbers is serendipity's paradise. Consider just
these four from a random listing: DVD567 Comet collision > DVD 568
Voyage to the planets and beyond > DVD569 Run Lola Run > DVD 570 Cité
des enfants perd[us].
But the more we can do to enhance access the better -- various types of
listings can only help. To be honest, I don't really have a simple
listing in one column that says something like "Films About Africa."
Maybe I am missing something --I can see accession numbers for closed stacks
where the DVDs are retrieved after a patron finds them in the catalog. However,
what about browsers who want to look through foreign films, musicals, etc.
Accession number order would be a nightmare for serendipity, no?
Christine Crowley
Dean of Learning Resources
Adjunct Faculty--Theatre
Northwest Vista College
3535 N. Ellison Dr.
San Antonio, TX 78251
210.486.4572 office
210.486.4504 fax
[email protected]
Northwest Vista College is one of the Alamo Colleges
www.alamo.edu/nvc/lrc
________________________________
From: [email protected] on behalf of Rick Faaberg
Sent: Sun 5/22/2011 9:51 PM
To: Videolib List
Subject: Re: [Videolib] Question about LC call numbers
On 5/22/11 7:02 PM, "Randal Baier"<[email protected]> sent this:
In my opinion, humbled by such an august group, this is a compulsion up
with which I will not put. Given the catalogs we use, if there are decent
subject headings and full information, and format filters, I don't really think
it's necessary to LCify media. Incremental accession numbers work for us.
I concur. I did the LC thing with our K-12 collection way back when - and the
library users (teachers) did not like it at all. (The school librarians did
like it, but that's another story :)
One year later, back to the subject headings and accession numbers.
Best
Rick Faaberg
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relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective
working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
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